Epizootiology of myxobolus cerebralis, the causative agent of salmonid whirling disease in the Rock Creek drainage of West-Central Montana: 2004-2008

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 252-257

  Granath Jr , Willard O ^a   Vincent, E Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DNA;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH RISK; MYCOPARASITE; PARASITE INTENSITY; PARASITE RESISTANCE; PARASITIC DISEASE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SALMONID; WATER FLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BROWN TROUT; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; MYXOBOLUS; MYXOBOLUS CEREBRALIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAINBOW TROUT; RIVER; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED; WHIRLING DISEASE;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; FRESH WATER; MONTANA; MYXOBOLUS; OLIGOCHAETA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PREVALENCE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

MONTANA; OHIO; ROCK CREEK; UNITED STATES;

MYXOBOLUS CEREBRALIS; MYXOZOA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALIX; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX;

EID: 77953553221     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2285.1     Document Type: Article

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