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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2004, p. 4393-4397, Vol. 70, No. 7
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.7.4393-4397.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Isolates of Piscirickettsia salmonis from Scotland and Ireland Show Evidence of Clonal Diversity

H. I. Reid, A. A. Griffen, and T. H. Birkbeck*

Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland

Received 29 December 2003/ Accepted 19 March 2004

ABSTRACT

Salmonid rickettsial septicemia, caused by Piscirickettsia salmonis, causes major mortalities in Chilean salmonid aquaculture and is an increasing problem in Atlantic salmon in Ireland and Scotland. Analysis of 16S-to-23S internal transcribed sequences and 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) shows that Irish isolates of P. salmonis form two new groups of the organism while Scottish isolates cluster together with Norwegian and Canadian isolates from Atlantic salmon.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Joseph Black Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland. Phone: 44 141 330 5843. Fax: 44 141 330 4600. E-mail: h.birkbeck{at}bio.gla.ac.uk.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2004, p. 4393-4397, Vol. 70, No. 7
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.7.4393-4397.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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