Vibrio salmonicida, known as a cold water vibriosis, affects Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).

The pathogen is characterized as a facultative anaerobic, motile rod.

This disease affects mainly fish farms with Atlantic salmon and occasionally infects rainbow trout.

The disease occurs mainly in late autumn, winter or early spring.

Characteristics of this disease, also known as hemorrhagic syndrome, are anemia and hemorrhages with a generalized septicemia, presenting large amounts of bacterial cells in the blood of sick or recently dead fish.

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