Studies on the occurrence of actinosporean stages of fish myxosporeans in a fish farm of Hungary, with the description of triactinomyxon, raabeia, aurantiactinomyxon and neoactinomyxon types

Acta Veterinaria Hungarica

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 259-284

  El Mansy, Amina ^a,b,c   Szekely Cs ^a   Molnar K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Egypt)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Actinospore; Aurantiactinomyxon; Myxosporeans; Myxozoa; Neoactinomyxon; Raabeia; Survey; Triactinomyxon

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANNELID WORM; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; CARP; FISH DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUNGARY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOON; SEASON; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; CARPS; DATA COLLECTION; FISH DISEASES; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUNGARY; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; OLIGOCHAETA; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SEASONS;

EID: 0031610562     PISSN: 02366290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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