Investigation article published in Journal of Fish Diseases

January 1^st, 1996

Several strains of Gram-positive short rod (cocci-bacilli)-shaped bacteria were isolated from diseased cultured turbot, Scophthalmus maximus (L.), in the North of Spain with lesions and signs of streptococcosis. The alpha-haemolytic streptococcus-like organisms from diseased turbot were identified by physiological, biochemical and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis as Streptococcus parauberis. This is the first report of S. parauberis associated with fish disease.

Domenech A., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF., Pascual C., Garcia JA., Cutuli MT., Moreno MA., Collins MD. and Dominguez L..

Streptococcosis in cultured turbot, Scophthalmus maximus (L.), associated with Streptococcus parauberis

	Departamento de Sanidad Animal. Facultad de Veterinaria. Universidad Complutense (UCM).
	Servicio de Identificación y Caracterización Microbiana (ICM). Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET). Universidad Complutense (UCM).
	Department of Microbiology. Institute of Food Research (IFR).