Marine pollution and bacterial disease outbreaks are two closely related dilemmas that
impact marine fish production from fisheries and mariculture. Oil, heavy metals …

Wild fisheries are declining due to over-fishing, climate change, pollution and marine habitat
destructions among other factors, and, concomitantly, aquaculture is increasing significantly …

Simple Summary Streptococcosis is an economical important bacterial disease that can
seriously cause huge losses in the global aquaculture sector. In recent years studies have …

Simple Summary Complex interactions between marine Gram-positive pathogens and fish
hosts in the marine environment can result in diseases of economically important finfish …

The ectoparasitic seal louse, Echinophthirius horridus infects harbour (Phoca vitulina) and
grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) in the North and Baltic Sea. The endoparasitic heartworm …

Piscirickettsia salmonis is the causative agent of Piscirickettsiosis, an infectious disease with
a high economic impact on the Chilean salmonid aquaculture industry. This bacterium …

Tenacibaculum maritimum is a bacterial pathogen that causes tenacibaculosis outbreaks in
major commercial marine fish worldwide. However, scarce knowledge exists regarding T …

Streptococcus phocae subsp. salmonis is a Gram-positive bacterium that causes mortality
only in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) farmed in Chile, even when this species is co-cultured …

Recent studies have implicated beta-hemolytic streptococci as opportunistic pathogens of
marine mammals, including southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis), but little is known …

Marine mammals are sentinel species representing the “health” of our oceans on which we
are dependent. There are many threats to marine mammals including infectious diseases …