title: Possible human health hazards from outbreak of epizootic ulcerative syndrome (EUS) in fish in the Asia-Pacific region.
abstract: Acid fast rods, constituting chemoautotrophic nocardioform bacteria, could be repeatedly cultivated and isolated and propagated indefinitely in vitro from fish actinomycotic macrophage granuloma from the massive epizootics of ulcerative disease syndrome of fish in eastern India during 1988-90. The possible human hazards of zoonotic actinomycotic infections as a result of handling and consumption of such fish are assessed.
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Chakrabarty
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Dastidar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ganguli
mesh_terms: D000192:Actinomycetales / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000818:Animals; D001208:Asia / Q000453:epidemiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D010139:Pacific Islands / Q000453:epidemiology; D011634:Public Health; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission