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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Protection of rainbow trout against vibriosis and furunculosis by the use of attenuated strains of Vibrio anguillarum
Contributor:
Norqvist, A;
Hagström, A;
Wolf-Watz, H
Published:
American Society for Microbiology, 1989
Published in:
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 55 (1989) 6, Seite 1400-1405
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1128/aem.55.6.1400-1405.1989
ISSN:
0099-2240;
1098-5336
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
The fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum causes a lethal infection in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri). Three different avirulent mutants, constructed by transposon insertion mutagenesis (VAN20 and VAN70) or as antibiotic-resistant mutants (VAN1000), were isolated by screening 200 individual isolated mutants for avirulence. When used as live vaccines, all three avirulent mutants were able to induce protective immunity against the homologous as well as a heterologous strain of V. anguillarum. When VAN1000 was used, protective immunity could be recorded 1 week after bath vaccination with 10(7) bacteria per ml of water for 30 min. A single-dose immunization was effective for at least 12 weeks. Western immunoblotting showed that strains of V. anguillarum have antigenic determinants in common with Aeromonas strains. Therefore, we tested and confirmed that VAN1000 also was able to induce protective immunity against challenge with Aeromonas salmonicida.