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Volume 23, Number 12—December 2017
Dispatch

Pathogenic Elizabethkingia miricola Infection in Cultured Black-Spotted Frogs, China, 2016

Ruixue Hu, Junfa Yuan, Yin Meng, Zhe Wang, and Zemao GuComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China (R. Hu, J. Yuan, Y. Meng, Z. Wang, Z. Gu); Hubei Engineering Research Center for Aquatic Animal Diseases Control and Prevention, Wuhan (R. Hu, J. Yuan, Z. Gu)

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Table 1

Results from etiologic detection in 213 frogs collected in Hunan, China, July–October 2016*

Pathogen
 Tested organ No. positive
Skin
 Liver
 Spleen
 Kidney
 Brain
 Intestine
 Muscle
 Gallbladder
 Heart
Bacteria NT + + + + NT NT NT NT 190†
Parasite‡ – – – – – – – + – 9
Fungus§ – NT NT NT NT NT NT NT NT 0
Ranaviruses NT NT – – NT NT – NT NT 0

* NT, not tested; +, positive; –, negative.
†Predominant bacterial infection. The results were considered positive if any one of the tested organs was positive.
‡Class Myxosporea.
§Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

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