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Diversity among strains causing bacterial kidney disease in salmonid fish

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A study was made of the biochemical, cultural, morphological, physiological and serological characters of 25 Gram-positive bacterial isolates of bacterial kidney disease in salmonid fish. Two distinct homogenous phena and seven single-member clusters were defined as a result of overall similarity based on analyses with the Jaccard coefficient. One phenon was equated withCorynebacterium pyogenes, but the second represents a novel taxon.

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Austin, B., Rodgers, C.J. Diversity among strains causing bacterial kidney disease in salmonid fish. Current Microbiology 3, 231–235 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02602454

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