Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii isolated from 24 farmed fishes in western Japan

J Vet Med Sci. 2012 Feb;74(2):275-8. doi: 10.1292/jvms.11-0226. Epub 2011 Oct 11.

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bacterial Proteins / chemistry
  • Bacterial Proteins / genetics
  • Base Sequence
  • Chaperonin 60 / chemistry
  • Chaperonin 60 / genetics
  • DNA, Bacterial / chemistry
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics
  • DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / chemistry
  • DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / genetics
  • Disease Outbreaks / veterinary*
  • Fish Diseases / epidemiology
  • Fish Diseases / microbiology*
  • Japan / epidemiology
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mycobacterium / genetics
  • Mycobacterium / isolation & purification*
  • Mycobacterium Infections / epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium Infections / microbiology
  • Mycobacterium Infections / veterinary*
  • Perciformes*
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction / veterinary
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / chemistry
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Chaperonin 60
  • DNA, Bacterial
  • DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
  • heat-shock protein 65, Mycobacterium