Resumen de Francisella philomiragia, bacteria asociada con altas mortalidades en salmones del Atlántico (Salmo salar) cultivados en balsas-jaulas en el lago Llanquihue.

H. Bohle, Elmer Tapia, A. Martínez, Marta Rozas, A. Figueroa, Paola Bustos B.

• Francisella philomiragia was isolated fram Atlantic salmon cage-farmed in the Llanquihue lake with outbreaks of a granulomatous disease, with high rates of morbidity and an accumulated mortalities between 5% to 20%. The isolates had 100% similarity with F. Philomiragia ssp noatunensis or F. Piscicida isolated in Atlantic cod, 99% similarity with Francisella sp. Detected in tilapia fram Asia and Central America and 99% of similarity with the reference strain F. PhilOlniragia thraugh 165 rDNA phylogenetic analysis.