Systemic infection in European perch with thermoadapted virulent Aeromonas salmonicida (Perca fluviatilis)
2019
Rupp, Melanie | Pilo, Paola | Müller, Barbara | Knüsel, Ralph | von Siebenthal, Beat | Frey, Joachim | Sindilariu, Paul‐Daniel | Schmidt‐Posthaus, Heike
In non‐salmonid fish, Aeromonas salmonicidacan cause local infections with severe skin ulcerations, known as atypical furunculosis. In this study, we present a systemic infection by a virulent A. salmonicidain European perch (Perca fluviatilis).This infection was diagnosed in a Swiss warm water recirculation aquaculture system. The isolate of A. salmonicida encodes a type three secretion system (TTSS) most likely located on a plasmid similar to pAsa5/pASvirA, which is known to specify one of the main virulence attributes of the species A. salmonicida. However, the genes specifying the TTSS of the perch isolate show a higher temperature tolerance than strains isolated from cold‐water fish. The function of the TTSS in virulence was verified in a cytotoxicity test using bluegill fry and epithelioma papulosum cyprinid cells.
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