The success of artificial oral infection to Anguilla japonica Temminck et Schlegel by Edwardsiella fujianensis Han et al. confirmed that the infection was induced through digestive tract by the bacteria. Several histopathological observations that the germs dissolved the liver cells into focal necrosis and caused hyperplasia of hematopoietic tissue of kidney. The focal necrosis changed into abscess when secondary infection happened with Aeromonas, which is the reason for eel death and different symptoms of Edwardsielliasis for liver type of kidney type.
Han Xianpu, Li Wei; Pan Jinpei.Oral infection to Anguilla japonica with Edwardsiella and observation on histopathology,Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica,1995,19(3):245-249
