Vibrio tapetis is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium, the causative agent of the brown ring disease that affects cultured clams.[1] B1090 (CECT 4600) is the type strain.[2]

Vibrio tapetis
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Vibrionales
Family: Vibrionaceae
Genus: Vibrio
Species:
V. tapetis
Binomial name
Vibrio tapetis
Borrego et al. 1996

References

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  1. ^ Bassem Allam, Christine Paillard & Susan E. Ford (April 2002). "Pathogenicity of Vibrio tapetis, the etiological agent of brown ring disease in clams". Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 48 (3): 221–231. doi:10.3354/dao048221. PMID 12033709.
  2. ^ Borrego, J. J.; Castro, D.; Luque, A.; Paillard, C.; Maes, P.; Garcia, M. T.; Ventosa, A. (1996). "Vibrio tapetis sp. nov., the Causative Agent of the Brown Ring Disease Affecting Cultured Clams". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 46 (2): 480–484. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-2-480. ISSN 0020-7713.

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