• Vibrio neptunius produces piscibactin and amphibactin and both siderophores contribute significantly to virulence for clams 

  Galvis Serrano, Néstor Fabián; Ageitos, Lucía; Rodríguez González, Jaime; Jiménez González, Carlos; Barja Pérez, Juan Luis; Lemos Ramos, Manuel Luis; Balado Dacosta, Miguel (Frontiers, 2021)

  Vibrio neptunius is an inhabitant of mollusc microbiota and an opportunistic pathogen causing disease outbreaks in marine bivalve mollusc species including oysters and clams. Virulence of mollusc pathogenic vibrios is ...

• The Vibriolysin-Like Protease VnpA and the Collagenase ColA Are Required for Full Virulence of the Bivalve Mollusks Pathogen Vibrio neptunius 

  Galvis Serrano, Nestor Fabián; Barja Pérez, Juan Luis; Lemos Ramos, Manuel Luis; Balado Dacosta, Miguel (MDPI, 2021)

  Vibrio neptunius is an important pathogen of bivalve mollusks worldwide. Several metalloproteases have been described as virulence factors in species of Vibrio that are pathogenic to bivalves, but little is known about the ...

• NK-lysin peptides ameliorate viral encephalopathy and retinopathy disease signs and provide partial protection against nodavirus infection in European sea bass 

  Valero Cuesta, Yulema; González Fernández, Carmen; Cárdenas, Constanza; Guzmán, Fanny; León, Rosa; Cuesta, Alberto (Elsevier, 2021)

  Antimicrobial peptides (AMP) comprise a wide range of small molecules with direct antibacterial activity and immunostimulatory role and are proposed as promising substitutes of the antibiotics. Additionally, they also exert ...

• BEI Inactivated Vaccine Induces Innate and Adaptive Responses and Elicits Partial Protection upon Reassortant Betanodavirus Infection in Senegalese Sole 

  Valero Cuesta, Yulema; Olveira Hermida, José Gabriel; López Vázquez, Carmen; Pereira Dopazo, Carlos; Bandín Matos, María Isabel (MDPI, 2021)

  Nervous necrosis virus (NNV), the causative agent of viral encephalopathy and retinopathy (VER), is one of the most threatening viruses affecting marine and freshwater fish species worldwide. Senegalese sole is a promising ...

• New insights into the Manila clam – Perkinsus olseni interaction based on gene expression analysis of clam hemocytes and parasite trophozoites through in vitro challenges 

  Hasanuzzaman, Abul Farah Md; Cao Hermida, María Asunción; Ronza, Paolo; Fernández Boo, Sergio; Rubiolo Gaytán, Juan Andrés; Robledo Sánchez, Diego; Gómez Tato, Antonio; Álvarez Dios, José Antonio; Gómez Pardo, María Belén; Villalba García, Antonio; Martínez Portela, Paulino (Elsevier, 2020)

  The Manila clam (Ruditapes philippinarum) is the bivalve species with the highest global production from both fisheries and aquaculture, but its production is seriously threatened by perkinsosis, a disease caused by the ...

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