Do salmon lice, Lepeophtheirus salmonis, have a role in the epidemiology of amoebic gill disease caused by Neoparamoeba perurans?

Journal of Fish Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 683-687

  Nowak, B F ^a   Bryan, J ^b   Jones, S R M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Aqua Education   (Australia)

^c PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amoebic gill disease; Epidemiology; Sea lice

Indexed keywords

AMOEBOZOA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; COPEPOD; ECTOPARASITOSIS; FISH DISEASE; GILL; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; COMPLICATION; FISH DISEASES; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; COPEPODA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FISH DISEASES; GILLS; LOBOSEA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SALMO SALAR;

LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS; NEOPARAMOEBA; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 77956106142     PISSN: 01407775     EISSN: 13652761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2761.2010.01158.x     Document Type: Article

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