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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1989 June; 55(6): 1400-1405

Protection of rainbow trout against vibriosis and furunculosis by the use of attenuated strains of Vibrio anguillarum.

Department of Microbiology, University of Umeå, Sweden.

ABSTRACT

The fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum causes a lethal infection in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri). Three different avirulent mutants, constructed by transposon insertion mutagenesis (VAN20 and VAN70) or as antibiotic-resistant mutants (VAN1000), were isolated by screening 200 individual isolated mutants for avirulence. When used as live vaccines, all three avirulent mutants were able to induce protective immunity against the homologous as well as a heterologous strain of V. anguillarum. When VAN1000 was used, protective immunity could be recorded 1 week after bath vaccination with 10(7) bacteria per ml of water for 30 min. A single-dose immunization was effective for at least 12 weeks. Western immunoblotting showed that strains of V. anguillarum have antigenic determinants in common with Aeromonas strains. Therefore, we tested and confirmed that VAN1000 also was able to induce protective immunity against challenge with Aeromonas salmonicida.

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