Neoparamoeba sp. and other protozoans on the gills of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar smolts in seawater

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 234-240

  Bermingham, Mairéad L ^a   Mulcahy, Máire F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Amoebae; Amoebic gill disease; Neoparamoeba sp.; Platyamoeba sp.; Scuticociliates; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DISEASE INCIDENCE; PATHOGEN; PROTOZOAN; SALMONID; SEAWATER; SMOLT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

AMOEBA (GENUS); BODONIDAE; FLABELLULA; MAYORELLA; NEOPARAMOEBA; PARANOPHRYS; PLATYAMOEBA; PROTOZOA; SALMO SALAR; SCUTICOCILIATIA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE; VEXILLIFERA;

PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S; SEA WATER;

AMEBIASIS; AMOEBA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; CHEMISTRY; FISH DISEASE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; GILL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IRELAND; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMEBIASIS; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FISH DISEASES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GILLS; IRELAND; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SALMO SALAR; SEAWATER;

EID: 35748959003     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao076231     Document Type: Article

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