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Table 4

Bacteria identified on skin and gill swabs of farmed Atlantic bluefin tuna in spring and autumn.

  Spring Autumn


  Skin Gills Skin Gills




  No. % No. % No. % No. %
Brevundimonas vesicularis             8 15.4
Corynebacterium propinquum         12 7.3    
Moraxella spp. 35 26.5 25 29.4 17 10.4 19 36.5
Pasteurella spp. 1 0.7 60 70.6 84 51.2 15 28.9
Pseudomonas spp.         2 1.2    
Staphylococcus lentus 62 47.0            
Staphylococcus xylosus 17 12.9     13 7.9 2 3.8
Staphylococcus spp. 5 3.8     36 22.0 7 13.5
Weeksella virosa/Empedobacter brevis 12 9.1         1 1.9

No., number of isolates; %, relative frequency among all isolates.

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