date:Jun 06, 2014
teria to 264 known Aeromonas strains in an international database.
Only one virulent strain came close to matching the one sampled from Alabama: ZC1, isolated from a diseased grass carp in China's Guangdong Province.
A common ancestor is responsible for the virulent hydrophila strains causing fish disease in both China and the US, the researchers found.
The findings appeared in the journal mBio.