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Appl Environ Microbiol, April 1998, p. 1573-1575, Vol. 64, No. 4
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Chemotaxis of Pathogenic Vibrio Strains towards Mucus Surfaces of Gilt-Head Sea Bream (Sparus aurata L.)

M. Angeles Bordas,1 M. Carmen Balebona,1 Jose M. Rodriguez-Maroto,2 Juan J. Borrego,1 and Miguel A. Moriñigo1,*

Department of Microbiology1 and Department of Chemical Engineering,2 Faculty of Sciences, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos, 29071 Malaga, Spain

Received 10 July 1997/Accepted 25 January 1998

Vibrio anguillarum and Vibrio alginolyticus exhibited significant adhesion to and chemotactic abilities towards mucus collected from the skin, gills, and intestine of gilt-head sea bream. Quadratic polynomial models for chemotaxis designed to estimate the influence of temperature demonstrated a differential bacterial chemotaxis depending of the source of the mucus, with the chemotaxis towards intestinal mucus being the least influenced.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos, 29071 Malaga, Spain. Phone: 34-5-2131862. Fax: 34-5-2132000. E-mail: morinigo{at}uma.es.




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