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Although vibrioses caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus, V. alginolyticus and some other unnamed vibrios have been reported in reared juvenile or farmed red sea-bream (Pagrus major), V. anguillarum infection of the fish species has never been reported so far in Japan.
In June 1981, V. anguillarum was isolated from reared juvenile red sea-bream (average body length 17 mm) às a cause of an epidemic outbreak in a hatchery. At the same time, other two strains which had been isolated from the same fish species at another hatchery in 1978 were also identified as V. anguillarum.
The infection caused by the organism seems to be one of the significant diseases in artificial seed production of red sea-bream.
