Chemotaxis of Pathogenic Vibrio Strains towards Mucus Surfaces of Gilt-Head Sea Bream (Sparus aurataL.)

摘要

Vibrio anguillarum and Vibrio alginolyticusexhibited significant adhesion to and chemotactic abilities towards mucus collected from the skin, gills, and intestine of gilt-head sea bream. Quadratic polynomial models for chemotaxis designed to estimate the influence of temperature demonstrated a differential bacterial chemotaxis depending of the source of the mucus, with the chemotaxis towards intestinal mucus being the least influenced.