White feces syndrome of shrimp arises from transformation, sloughing and aggregation of hepatopancreatic microvilli into vermiform bodies superficially resembling gregarines

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Sriurairatana, Siriporn ^a   Boonyawiwat, Visanu ^b   Gangnonngiw, Warachin ^c   Laosutthipong, Chaowanee ^a   Hiranchan, Jindanan ^a,b   Flegel, Timothy W ^a,b  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEPATOPANCREATIC NECROSIS DISEASE; AGGREGATED TRANSFORMED MICROVILLUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; ASIAN; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CRUSTACEAN DISEASE; CYTOLYSIS; DESQUAMATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GREGARINE; HEPATOPANCREAS; LIVER SIZE; MICROSCOPY; MICROVILLUS; MIDGUT; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PEELING; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOON; RIBOSOME; SHRIMP; SMEAR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHITE FECAL STRING; WHITE FECES SYNDROME; ANIMAL; APICOMPLEXA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FECES; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PENAEIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SYNDROME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FECES; HEPATOPANCREAS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROVILLI; PENAEIDAE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; SYNDROME;

EID: 84902668504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099170     Document Type: Article

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