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연쇄구균증은 전세계적으로 담수와 해수의 다 양한 어류에서 발병하며 (Ghittino et al., 2003), 주요 원인체로는 Lactococcus garvieae, Strpeto- coccus iniae 및 S. parauberis 등이 알려져 있다 (Toranzo et al., 2005). 이 중 L. garvieae와 S. iniae 는 어류 연쇄구균증의 원인체로 널리 알려져 있 어, 발병사례 (Kusuda et al., 1991; Perera et al., 1994), 분자생물학적 분석 (Eldar et al., 1997;
Eldar et al., 1999) 및 백신 (Klesius et al., 2000;
Vendrell et al., 2007) 등에 관한 다양한 연구가 이루어져 있다. S. parauberis는 1996년 스페인 Galicia 지역의 turbot Scophthalmus maximus에서 처음으로 분리되었으며 (Domenech et al., 1996) 주로 여름철 고수온기에 발병해 많은 폐사를 유 발하는 것으로 보고되고 있다.
우리나라에서도 오래전부터 L. garvieae 및 S.
iniae가 넙치 연쇄구균증의 주요 원인균으로 지 목되어 왔으며 (이 등 2001; 김과 김, 2003), 이들
Streptococcus parauberis 인위 감염에 의한 넙치, Paralichthys olivaceus 심장의 병리학적 변화
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Pathological changes of the heart of olive flounder Paralichthys olivaceus in experimental Streptococcus parauberis infection
Jin Woo Kim, Mi Young Cho, Kyoung Mi Won, Byoung Gwan Kim, Hee Jung Choi
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��Aquatic Animal Disease Control Center, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Busan 619-900, Korea
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Pathology Division, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Busan 619-900, Korea
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Seaworld Team, Hanwha 63 City, Seoul 150-763, Korea
We conducted bacteriological and histopathological analysis for olive flounder Paralichthys olivaceus after experimental infection with Streptococcus parauberis (FP2284) isolated from diseased olive flounder under different stress conditions. Experimental challenge was performed in healthy flounder (40.4 g in aver- age body weight) by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection with 2×10
8CFU/fish under normal (no stress) or netting (for 2 min, twice/day) stress condition. The cumulative mortalities of no-stress and netting stress group were 70% and 95%, respectively. The most prevalent changes observed in experimentally infected flounder were darkness of skin and inflammation of the heart. Severe pericarditis, myocarditis and fibrosis were observed in the heart of the affected flounder. The results of viable counts showed the number of bacteria of the heart tissue was maintained over the 10
4CFU∙g
-1heart for 3 weeks after inoculation. Histological lesions of the heart was more extensive and gradual decrease in bacterial numbers of heart tissue was delayed under stress condition.
Key Words: Streptococcus parauberis, Histological changes, Heart, Pericarditis, Olive flounder
�Corresponding Author : Myoung Ae Park, Tel : 051-720-2470 Fax : 051-720-2498, E-mail : [email protected]