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In addition to the organisms detailed below, there has been fleeting mention of a fish pathogenic role for Erwinia sp. (Starr and Chatterjee 1972) and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (Morse et al. 1978).

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Austin, B., Austin, D.A. (2012). Enterobacteriaceae Representatives. In: Bacterial Fish Pathogens. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4884-2_6

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