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VETERINARY RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 93-101Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/B:VERC.0000012113.95479.2f
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aquaculture; commercial identification systems; diagnostics; fish; Flavobacterium; Pseudomonas; sea bass
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The ability of two commercial rapid identification systems, API 20E and BBL Crystal E/NF, to reliably identify bacterial isolates from the internal organs of reared sea bass were compared. The tests gave different results: API 20E identified bacteria as Pseudomonas spp. with 37% accuracy, while BBL Crystal E/NF identified them as Flavobacterium odoratum with 99% accuracy. Although F odoratum is not a marine fish pathogen, conventional tests conducted with the same isolates were more indicative of them being Flavobacterium spp. than Pseudomonas spp., suggesting that BBL Crystal E/NF was more reliable in this identification. Both systems were found to be applicable for diagnostics of marine fish pathogens, but should be used with caution because of possible misinterpretation.
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