Chitin degrading species of bacteria in the genera Pseudomonas, Vibrio, and Beneckea were cultured from the lesions of lobsters (Homarus americanus)with a shell disease. A species of bacterium of the genus Vibrio (Beneckea) produced necrosis characteristics of shell disease in experimental lobsters when the integument had been damaged prior to inoculation.
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1 January 1978
BACTERIA INDUCED SHELL DISEASE OF LOBSTERS (Homarus americanus)
STEWART C. MALLOY