Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2001)

A Unique Mycobacterium Species Isolated from an Epizootic of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis)

  • Martha W. Rhodes,
  • Howard Kator,
  • Shaban Kotob,
  • Peter van Berkum,
  • Ilsa Kaattari,
  • Wolfgang Vogelbein,
  • Margaret M. Floyd,
  • W. Ray Butler,
  • Frederick D. Quinn,
  • Christopher Ottinger,
  • Emmett Shotts

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0705.017523
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 5
pp. 896 – 899

Abstract

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We isolated a Mycobacterium sp. resembling Mycobacterium marinum and M. ulcerans from diseased striped bass (Morone saxatilis) during an epizootic of mycobacteriosis in the Chesapeake Bay. This isolate may represent an undescribed Mycobacterium species, based on phenotypic characteristics and comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence.

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