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Bass Morone-Saxatilis; Striped Bass; Skin Ulcers; Sp-Nov.; Marinum; Aphanomyces; Mortality; Evolution; Infection; Menhaden
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Quantitative Pcr Assay For Mycobacterium Pseudoshottsii And Mycobacterium Shottsii And Application To Environmental Samples And Fishes From The Chesapeake Bay, Dt Gauthier, Kimberly S. Reece, J Xiao, Mw Rhodes, Hi Kator, Rj Latour, C F. Bonzek, J Hoenig, W. K. Vogelbein
Quantitative Pcr Assay For Mycobacterium Pseudoshottsii And Mycobacterium Shottsii And Application To Environmental Samples And Fishes From The Chesapeake Bay, Dt Gauthier, Kimberly S. Reece, J Xiao, Mw Rhodes, Hi Kator, Rj Latour, C F. Bonzek, J Hoenig, W. K. Vogelbein
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Striped bass (Morone saxatilis) in the Chesapeake Bay are currently experiencing a very high prevalence of mycobacteriosis associated with newly described Mycobacterium species, Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii and M. shottsii. The ecology of these mycobacteria outside the striped bass host is currently unknown. In this work, we developed quantitative real-time PCR assays for M. pseudoshottsii and M. shottsii and applied these assays to DNA extracts from Chesapeake Bay water and sediment samples, as well as to tissues from two dominant prey of striped bass, Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) and bay anchovy (Anchoa mitchilli). Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii was found to be ubiquitous in water …