“…The isolates from ulcer diseases in eel classified as atypical A. salmonicida (KITAO et al, 1984) have several different biochemical characteristics as corn SHOTTS et al, 1980;TRUST et al, 1980), Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar (PATERSON et al, 1980), carp, Cyprinus carpio, (CSABA et al 1981) and eel, Anguilla rostrata (HAYASAKA and SULLIVAN, 1981). However, atypical A. salmonicida strains isolated from ulcer disease in eel in Japan (KITAO et al, 1984;OHTSUKA et al, 1984;IIDA et al, 1984) have similar biochemical characteristics except for a few characters (Table 4).…”