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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 Prefecture (Uno and Muroga, 1974).
According to the available reports, edwardsiellosis is restricted to the southern states of the USA and Japan.
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Edwardsiellosis means A disease of fish caused by the pathogenic bacterium Edwardsiella tarda..
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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 Prefecture (Uno and Muroga, 1974).
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