Skin ulcers in estuarine fishes: A comparative pathological evaluation of wild and laboratory-esposed fish

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2001, Pages 687-693

  Vogelbein, W K ^a   Shields, J D ^a   Haas, L W ^a   Reece, K S ^a   Zwerner, D E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphanomyces invadans; Menhaden skin ulceration; Pathology; Pfiesteria shumwayae

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; APHANOMYCES INVADANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BRAIN; BRANCHIAL ARCH; BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOFLAGELLATE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDERMIS; EROSION; ESTUARY; EVALUATION; FISH; FISH DISEASE; FUNGUS; GANGLION; GILL; GRANULOMATOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY; LABORATORY; LYMPHOID CELL; MORTALITY; MOUTH MUCOSA; MUSCLE NECROSIS; MYCOSIS; MYOSITIS; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PETECHIA; PFIESTERIA; PFIESTERIA SHUMWAYAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN ULCER; SPINAL CORD; TILAPIA; ULCERATIVE MYCOSIS; UNITED STATES; VISCERA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; INFLAMMATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS; OREOCHROMIS; PFIESTERIA PISCICIDA; PFIESTERIA SHUMWAYAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DINOFLAGELLIDA; FISH DISEASES; FUNGI; GILLS; INFLAMMATION; NECROSIS; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN ULCER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TILAPIA;

EID: 0035163534     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109s5687     Document Type: Article

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