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edwardsiellosis

edwardsiellosis noun: a disease of fish caused by the pathogenic bacterium Edwardsiella tarda.

Noun

edwardsiellosis

  1. A disease of fish caused by the pathogenic bacterium Edwardsiella tarda.
    • Edwardsiellosis of eel breaks out with high incidences every year in farm ponds in the Yoshida area (Wakabayashi and Egusa, 1973b), but is uncommon in other eel-culturing areas. Recently, however, E. tarda was reported to be isolated from eels in farm ponds in Aichi Prefecture adjacent to Shizuoka...1976, Syuzo Egusa, “Some Bacterial Diseases of Freshwater Fishes in Japan”, in Fish Pathology, volume 10, number 2, page 103
    • According to the available reports, edwardsiellosis is restricted to the southern states of the USA and Japan.1992, Wilhelm Schäperclaus, Fish diseases, volume 1, page 530

Questions about edwardsiellosis

What does edwardsiellosis mean?
Edwardsiellosis means a disease of fish caused by the pathogenic bacterium Edwardsiella tarda.
What part of speech is edwardsiellosis?
Edwardsiellosis is a noun.

Words near edwardsiellosis in the dictionary

  1. Edwards syndrome
  2. Edwardses
  3. Edwardsian
  4. Edwardsianism
  5. Edwardsians
  6. edwardsiellosis
  7. Edwardson
  8. Edwardsons
  9. Edwardsville
  10. Edwin
  11. Edwina

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