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Science 4 December 1981:
Vol. 214. no. 4525, pp. 1139 - 1140
DOI: 10.1126/science.214.4525.1139
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Vibrio damsela, a Marine Bacterium, Causes Skin Ulcers on the Damselfish Chromis punctipinnis

MILTON LOVE 1, DIXIE TEEBKEN-FISHER 2, JO ELLEN HOSE 3, J. J. FARMER III 4, FRANCES W. HICKMAN 4, and G. RICHARD FANNING 5

1 Department of Biology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California 90041
2 Department of Vivaria and Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033
3 Department of Biology, Occidental College, and Department of Pathology, University of Southern California
4 Enteric Section, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, Atlanta, Georgia 30333
5 Department of Biochemistry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. 20012

A previously undescribed marine bacterium, Vibrio damsela, was isolated from naturally occurring skin ulcers on a species of temperate-water damselfish, the blacksmith (Chromis punctipinnis). Laboratory infection of the blacksmith with Vibrio damsela produced similar ulcers. Vibrio damsela was pathogenic for four other species of damselfish but not for members of other families of fish. The bacterium has also been isolated from water and from two human wounds and may be a cause of human disease.

Submitted on June 19, 1981


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