Mycobacterium salmoniphilum infection in farmed Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L |
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| Authors: | Zerihun M A Nilsen H Hodneland S Colquhoun D J |
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| Institution: | National Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway. adam.zerihun@vetinst.no |
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| Abstract: | Multiple greyish‐white visceral nodules containing abundant rapidly growing and acid‐fast bacteria, subsequently identified as Mycobacterium salmoniphilum, were detected in moribund and newly dead market‐sized fish during a period of increased mortality in an Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, farm in western Norway. Isolates cultured from diseased fish were phenotypically consistent with Mycobacterium sp. previously isolated from Atlantic salmon MT 1890 (= NCIMB13533), MT1892, MT1900 and MT1901] in the Shetland Isles, Scotland. Partial sequences of 16S rDNA, ribosomal RNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS1), 65‐kDa heat‐shock protein (Hsp65) and β subunit of RNA polymerase (rpoB) revealed 97‐99% similarity with M. salmoniphilum type strain ATCC 13758T. The source of infection was not confirmed. Koch’s postulates were fulfilled following experimental challenge of Atlantic salmon with field isolate NVI6598 ( FJ616988 ). Mortality was recorded in experimentally infected fish; however, the infection remained subclinical in the majority of affected fish over the 131‐day challenge period. |
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| Keywords: | 16S rDNA Atlantic salmon Hsp65 mycobacteriosis Mycobacterium salmoniphilum pathology phylogeny rpoB |
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