Highly virulent Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida isolated from Taiwan paradise fish, Macropodus opercularis (L.), in Taiwan

Pan-Chen Liu¹, Ching-Fu Cheng¹, Chen-Hsuan Chang¹, Shiun-Long Lin¹, Way-Shyan Wang^1*, Shao-Wen Hung², Ming-Hui Chen^1,5, Cheng-Chung Lin³, Ching-Yu Tu⁴, and Yu-Hsing Lin⁶

¹Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City 402, Taiwan.

²Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan.

³Graduate Institute of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City 402, Taiwan.

⁴Residue Control Division, Taiwan Agricultural Chemicals and Toxic Substances Research Institute, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Taiwan.

⁵The Livestock Disease Control Center of Taichung City, Taichung 402, Taiwan.

⁶Nursing Department of Yuanpei University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan.