Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Marine Biotechnology
Title The importance of bacterial interactions for winter ulcer and the potential use in control of fish diseases
Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National
Coordinator Henning Sørum
Coordinator email henning.sorum@nvh.no
Coordinator institution
NMBU - Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2006
End year 2009
Funding (€) € 332,690
Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/172604?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=0&Prosjektleder=Henning+S%C3%B8rum
Summary Investigation of bacterial interaction within and between pathogens involved in the disease Winter ulcer will be the main object since this disease is the main unsolved bacterial infection in salmonid farming and the problem has so far not been solved by vaccination, antibiotics or any management factors. The increased knowledge will be a scientific base for effective control of Winter ulcer and other infectious fish diseases. The investigation will start with a broad approach involving many different criteria for the growth of the bacteria and any detection of new factors will be further investigated in detail. Culturing and co-culturing of V. wodanis and M. viscosa with investigation of extracellular factors, surface features, intracellular changes og changes in behaviour related to interactions between the two bacteria will be performed. The various components and factors in the interaction will be studied with molecular proteomic and genetic methods. Bacterial strains with genes of importance in the bacterial interaction will be "knocked out" by molecular methods and tested for in vitro effect including complementing strains in small-scale challenge experiments with fish. The results from the project will be a good background for developing optimal control of Winter ulcer by improved vaccines or new strategies of preventing disease outbreaks
Keywords
Biology;
Disease;
Genetic;
Fish;
Salmon;
Bacteria;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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