- Pathogen:
- Yersinia ruckeri
- Precautions:
- Standard
- Diagnosis:
- Grow on blood, chocolate, MacConkey, and other ordinary laboratory media. Grows slow compared to other members in the same bacterial family.
- Pathogen Information:
- Gram-negative coccobacilli of the Enterobacteriaceae family.
- Epidemiology:
- Asymptomatic carrier fish and possibly riparian mammals are reservoirs.
- Associated Syndromes:
- Enteric Red Mouth (ERM), Yersiniosis.
- Additional Information:
- Resource: McVey, D. S., et al. Veterinary Microbiology. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.