title: Isolation and characterization of Vibrio alginolyticus isolated from diseased kuruma prawn, Penaeus japonicus.
abstract: Outbreaks of serious mortality among cultured kuruma prawns (Penaeus japonicus) with white spotted syndrome in the carapace occurred in the summer of 1993 in I-Lan, Taiwan. A swarming bacterium, strain Swy, was isolated from the hepatopancreas of the moribund prawns using tryptic soy agar supplemented with 1% NaCl and/or thiosulphate citrate bile salt sucrose agar. This strain was characterized and identified as Vibrio alginolyticus on the basis of a number of biochemical tests. The Swy strain was virulent to both kuruma prawns (P. japonicus) and tiger prawns (P. monodon) with LD50 values of 4.43 x 10(4) and 1.57 x 10(5) cfu g body weight-1, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, ROC.
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: T I
authors.initials: TI
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: F R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D033561:Penaeidae / Q000382:microbiology*; D012758:Shellfish / Q000382:microbiology*; D013045:Species Specificity; D014733:Vibrio / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D014735:Vibrio Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary; D014774:Virulence