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Effects of fish age and parasite dose on the development of whirling disease in rainbow trout.
Diseases of aquatic organisms - 11 Jun 2004
Ryce Eileen K N, Zale Alexander V, MacConnell Elizabeth
Abstract excerpt
We determined the ages at which juvenile rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss became resistant to the effects of whirling disease following exposure to a range of parasite doses. Heretofore, the development and severity of whirling disease in salmonids was known to be generally dependent on the age or size of fish when first exposed to the triactinomyxon spores of Myxobolus cerebralis; larger, older individuals...
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