Iodophor treatment is not completely efficacious in preventing Loma salmonae (Microsporidia) transmission in experimentally challenged chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum)

Journal of Fish Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 311-313

  Shaw, R W ^a,b   Kent, M L ^b   Adamson, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOMA SALMONAE; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 0032860221     PISSN: 01407775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2761.1999.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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