Emerg Infect Dis

eid

Emerging Infectious Diseases

1080-60401080-6059

Centers for Disease Control

11747708

2631865

Research Article

A unique Mycobacterium species isolated from an epizootic of striped bass (Morone saxatilis).

Rhodes

M. W.

martha@vims.eduKator

Kotob

van Berkum

Kaattari

Vogelbein

Floyd

M. M.

Butler

W. R.

Quinn

F. D.

Ottinger

Shotts

Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point 23062, USA.

Sep-Oct2001

75896899

We isolated a Mycobacterium sp. resembling Mycobacterium marinum and M. ulcerans from diseased striped bass (Morone saxatilis) during an epizootic of mycobacteriosis in the Chesapeake Bay. This isolate may represent an undescribed Mycobacterium species, based on phenotypic characteristics and comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence.