title: Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii isolated from 24 farmed fishes in western Japan.
abstract: Mycobacteria isolated from epizootics of farmed fishes in western Japan were examined for the first time using multigenotypic analysis. By analysis of the sequences of the internal transcribed spacer between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes (ITS) region and the partial 16S rRNA, hsp65 and rpoB genes, M. pseudoshottsii was identified as the causative agent in these infections. Prior to this study, only M. marinum has been known as the causative agent of lethal mycobacterial disease in marine fishes in Japan.
authors: Department of Mycobacteriology, Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4–2–1 Aoba, Higashimurayama, Tokyo 189–0002, Japan. nakanaga@nih.go.jp
authors: Kazue
authors: K
authors: Nakanaga
authors: Yoshihiko
authors: Y
authors: Hoshino
authors: Yoko
authors: Y
authors: Hattori
authors: Atsushi
authors: A
authors: Yamamoto
authors: Shinpei
authors: S
authors: Wada
authors: Kishio
authors: K
authors: Hatai
authors: Masahiko
authors: M
authors: Makino
authors: Norihisa
authors: N
authors: Ishii
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D018834:Chaperonin 60 / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary*; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009164:Mycobacterium Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D010473:Perciformes; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D018834:Chaperonin 60; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; C074119:heat-shock protein 65, Mycobacterium