Whirling disease: Host specificity and interaction between the actinosporean stage of Myxobolus cerebralis and rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-12

  El Matbouli, M ^a,b   Hoffmann, R W ^b   Schoel, H ^b   McDowell, T S ^a   Hedrick, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Host specificity; Myxobolus cerebralis; Triactinomyxon; Whirling disease

Indexed keywords

PATHOGENESIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHIRLING DISEASE;

FISH; HOST LOCATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; PARASITIC DISEASE;

ACTINOMYXIDA; AMPHIBIA; CARASSIUS AURATUS; CHONDROSTOMA NASUS; CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINUS CARPIO; LATIPES; MYKISS; MYXOBOLUS CEREBRALIS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; POECILIA RETICULATA; RANA PIPIENS; SALMONIDAE; TRIACTINOMYXON;

EID: 0033531244     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao035001     Document Type: Article

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