Important disease conditions of newly cultured species in intensive freshwater farms in Greece: First incidence of nodavirus infection in Acipenser sp.

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 247-252

  Athanassopoulou, F ^a   Billinis, C ^a   Prapas, Th ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b Natl Ref Fish Diseases Laboratory   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acipenser sp.; Freshwater aquaculture; Mugil sp.; Nodavirus; Recirculating systems

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; ETIOLOGY; FISH CULTURE; RECIRCULATING SYSTEM; VIRAL DISEASE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ACIPENSER; ACIPENSER SP.; AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CATFISH; CHILODONELLA; ICHTHYOPHTHIRIUS; MONOGENEA; MUGIL; MYXOBACTERIA; MYXOCOCCALES; NODAVIRIDAE; SAPROLEGNIA; SERRANIDAE; TILAPIA; TRICHODINA;

EID: 9944263526     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao060247     Document Type: Article

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