Affiliation:
1. Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USA
2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USA
3. Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, College of Veterinary Medicine Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USA
Abstract
AbstractBacterial coldwater disease (BCWD), caused by Flavobacterium psychrophilum, results in significant losses among multiple salmonid (family Salmonidae) species. Molecular epidemiology and serotyping studies have suggested that some variants are host specific; however, these associations have not been evaluated by cross‐challenging fish species with putatively host‐associated F. psychrophilum isolates via more natural (i.e. immersion) exposure routes. To this end, F. psychrophilum isolates US19‐COS, US62‐ATS and US87‐RBT, each originally recovered from diseased coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) or rainbow trout (O. mykiss), and belonging to a host‐associated multilocus sequence typing clonal complex (e.g. CC‐ST9, CC‐ST232 or CC‐ST10), were PCR‐serotyped, evaluated for proteolytic activity, and used to challenge adipose fin‐clipped 4‐month old Atlantic salmon, coho salmon and rainbow trout via immersion. Findings showed US87‐RBT caused disease and mortality only in rainbow trout (e.g. 56.7% survival probability). US19‐COS and US62‐ATS caused more mortality in coho salmon and Atlantic salmon but also caused disease in both other host species, albeit to a lesser extent. Observed survival differences may be due to variant antigenic/virulence determinants as differences in serotype and proteolytic activity were discovered. Collectively, results highlight the intricacies of F. psychrophilum‐host interactions and provide further in vivo evidence that some F. psychrophilum MLST variants are host specific, which may have implications for the development of BCWD prevention and control strategies.
Funder
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Subject
Veterinary (miscellaneous),Aquatic Science
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