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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 1998, p. 4065-4067, Vol. 64, No. 10
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Possible Transmission of Streptococcus iniae from Wild Fish to Cultured Marine Fish

Amir Zlotkin,1 Hannah Hershko,2 and Avi Eldar2,*

Department of Clinical Microbiology, The Hebrew University---Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 91120,1 and Department of Poultry and Fish Diseases, The Kimron Veterinary Institute, Bet Dagan 50250,2 Israel

Received 8 April 1998/Accepted 24 July 1998

Streptococcus iniae was isolated from diseased wild fish collected near a mariculture facility where gilthead sea bream and European sea bass exhibited a similar infection. Species-specific PCR and ribotyping confirmed that wild and cultured fish were infected by a single S. iniae clone. Wild fish are therefore potential amplifiers of pathogenic S. iniae strains.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Poultry and Fish Diseases, The Kimron Veterinary Institute, P.O. Box 12, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel. Phone: 972-3-9681760. Fax: 972-3-9681739. E-mail: vvshark1{at}volcani.agri.gov.il.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 1998, p. 4065-4067, Vol. 64, No. 10
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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