| pasteurella skyensis sp. nov., isolated from atlantic salmon (salmo salar l.). | from four separate incidents of disease in farmed atlantic salmon over a four-year period, gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria were consistently isolated by culture on sea-water blood agar. biochemical and physiological tests indicated that the organism was related to the family pasteurellaceae, and this was confirmed from the 16s rrna gene sequence. comparison of the 16s rrna gene sequence with those of 45 members of the pasteurellaceae showed that the closest phylogenetic relationship was with a ... | 2002 | 12054228 |