Bacteria induced shell disease of lobsters (Homarus americanus).
Chitin degrading species of bacteria in the genera Pseudomonas, Vibrio, and Beneckea were cultured from the lesions of lobsters (Homarus americanus) with a shell disease. A species of bacterium of the genus Vibrio (Beneckea) produced necrosis characteristics of shell disease in experimental lobsters when the integument had been damaged prior to inoculation.
D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008121:Nephropidae / Q000382:microbiology*; D011549:Pseudomonas / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013696:Temperature; D014733:Vibrio / Q000302:isolation & purification