Virulent aeromonas veronii strain BLB-01 associated with mass mortality of Clarias batrachus (Linnaeus, 1758)

In the present study, a virulent A. veronii strain BLB-01was isolated from the infected C. batrachus collected from freshwater fish farm Balabhadrapuram, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India and its identification was confirmed by 16S rRNA amplification and sequencing (Gen Bank accession number.MF370515).