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Density of the waterborne parasite Ceratomyxa shasta and its biological effects on salmon.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 May 2012
Hallett Sascha L, Ray R Adam, Hurst Charlene N, Holt Richard A, Buckles Gerri R, Atkinson Stephen D, Bartholomew Jerri L
Abstract excerpt
The myxozoan parasite Ceratomyxa shasta is a significant pathogen of juvenile salmonids in the Pacific Northwest of North America and is limiting recovery of Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and coho (O. kisutch) salmon populations in the Klamath River. We conducted a 5-year monitoring program that comprised concurrent sentinel fish exposures and water sampling across 212 river kilometers of the Klamath River....
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