Chemotaxis of pathogenic Vibrio strains towards mucus surfaces of gilt-head sea bream (Sparus aurata L.).
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.
Bordas
M A
MA
Department of Microbiology, University of Malaga, Spain.
Balebona
M C
MC
Rodriguez-Maroto
J M
JM
Borrego
J J
JJ
Morinigo
M A
MA
D000818:Animals; D001422:Bacterial Adhesion; D002633:Chemotaxis; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000382:microbiology; D005880:Gills / Q000382:microbiology; D007422:Intestines / Q000382:microbiology; D009093:Mucus / Q000382:microbiology; D010473:Perciformes / Q000382:microbiology*; D012867:Skin / Q000382:microbiology; D013696:Temperature; D014733:Vibrio / Q000472:pathogenicity* / Q000502:physiology*; D014735:Vibrio Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary