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RECENTLY, Vickers and McClean1 described cases of fish furunculosis in Lough Neagh pollan, Coregonus pollan Thompson. They have named the organism isolated Bacillus salmonicida (Emmerich and Weibel). This is erroneous, as revealed by the description of characteristics given. Since the organism is Gram-negative, non-sporulating and able to ferment sugar to acid, it cannot belong to the genus Bacillus, which is defined as consisting of Gram-positive sporulating bacteria, obligate aerobe, with highly oxidative metabolism. The furunculosis organism was discovered by Emmerich and Weibel2 in 1894 and described as Bacterium salmonicida. This name has been in general use3–6 until in recent years when the organism was incorporated in the new genus Aeromonas Kluyver and Van Niel7,8.
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VAN DUIJN, C. Taxonomy of the Fish Furunculosis Organism. Nature 195, 1127 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1951127a0
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