Increased susceptibility of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar to infections with Gyrodactylus derjavini induced by dexamethasone bath treatment

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-68

  Nielsen, C V ^a   Buchmann, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; BATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DRUG EFFECT; GYRODACTYLUS DERJAVINI; HELMINTHIASIS; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; PLATYHELMINTH;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANIMALS; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; PARASITOLOGY; SALMO SALAR; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; GYRODACTYLUS DERJAVINI; MONOGENEA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 0037342542     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/JOH2002159     Document Type: Article

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