| infectious necrotizing enteritis and mortality caused by vibrio carchariae in summer flounder paralichthys dentatus during intensive culture. | an epizootic causing mortality among cultured summer flounder paralichthys dentatus occurred in summer of 1998 at a land-based facility on narragansett bay, rhode island, usa. the disease, flounder infectious necrotizing enteritis (fine), was characterized by reddening around the anal area, distended abdomens filled with opaque serosanguineous fluid, enteritis and necrosis of the posterior intestine. in extreme cases of the disease, the posterior intestine was detached from the anus and was obse ... | 1999 | 10686671 |