Elevated resource availability sufficient to turn opportunistic into virulent fish pathogens

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1251-1256

  Wedekind, C ^a,b   Gessner, M O ^b,c   Vazquez, F ^b   Maerki And, M ^b,d   Steiner, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Abteilung für Umwelt   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Commensalism; Coregonus sp; Opportunistic pathogens; Parasitism; Symbiotic microbes; Water pollution; Whitefish

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; WATER;

ANTIBIOTICS; COMMENSALISM; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FUNGICIDE; HEALTH RISK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROHABITAT; PARASITE RESISTANCE; PARASITISM; PATHOGEN; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SALMONID; VIRULENCE; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; FISH DISEASE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SALMONID; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MALE; SALMONIDAE; VIRULENCE; WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COREGONUS; VERMES;

EID: 77951824406     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1067.1     Document Type: Article

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