Blood fluke infection of cultured tiger puffer Takifugu rubripes imported from China to Japan

Fish Pathology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 91-99

  Ogawa, Kazuo ^a   Nagano, Taizo ^b   Akai, Noriko ^b   Sugita, Akihiro ^c   Hall, Kathryn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA PREFECTURAL FISHERIES EXPERIMENTAL STATION   (Japan)

^c Fukui Prefectural Fisheries Experimental Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood fluke; Mortality; Psettarium; Takifugu rubripes; Tiger puffer

Indexed keywords

PSETTARIUM; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 34548550331     PISSN: 0388788X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3147/jsfp.42.91     Document Type: Article

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