“…Also, Enterobacter , Escherichia , Klebsiella , Serratia , Bacteroides , Bacillus and Propionibacterium , which are not considered as pathogens, were also found in whitefish kidney and previously reported in freshwater fish digestive tracts in general (Austin, ). Most of the other bacteria that we found in our study are ubiquitous and can be present in soil, water or plants, for instance Methylobacterium , Paracoccus , Stenotrophomonas, Bradyrhizobium , Altererythrobacter, Croceicoccus , Kocuria or Burkholderia (Kaneko et al ., ; Lidstrom & Chistoserdova, ; Kelly et al ., ; Kwon et al ., ; Ryan et al ., ; Xu et al ., ; Bontemps et al ., ; Savini et al ., ).…”