CHARACTERISTICS OF FLAVOBACTERIUM-BRANCHIOPHILUM ISOLATED FROM RAINBOW-TROUT IN KOREA

Outbreaks of bacterial gill disease (BGD) occurred among cultured rain bow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Chungbuk province of Korea. Gram-ne gative, filamentous and yellow-pigmented bacteria were isolated from t he diseased fish. The morphological, physiological, biochemical, and a ntigenic properties of the Korean isolates were consisted with those o f Flavobacterium branchiophilum (ATCC 35035(T) and ATCC 35036) isolate d from salmonid fish in Japan and Oregon, USA. It was concluded that t he Korean isolates were identified as F. branchiophilum.