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JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES
卷 40, 期 10, 页码 1387-1394出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jfd.12613
关键词
Branchiomonas cysticola; Epitheliocystis; gill disease; recirculation aquaculture systems; water born infection
资金
- Norwegian research council [233858/E40]
Elucidation of the role of infectious agents putatively involved in gill disease is commonly hampered by the lack of culture systems for these organisms. In this study, a farmed population of Atlantic salmon pre-smolts, displaying proliferative gill disease with associated Candidatus Branchiomonas cysticola, Ca.Piscichlamydia salmonis and Atlantic salmon gill pox virus (SGPV) infections, was identified. A subpopulation of the diseased fish was used as a source of waterborne infection towards a population of naive Atlantic salmon pre-smolts. Ca.B.cysticola infection became established in exposed naive fish at high prevalence within the first month of exposure and the bacterial load increased over the study period. Ca.P.salmonis and SGPV infections were identified only at low prevalence in exposed fish during the trial. Although clinically healthy, at termination of the trial the exposed, naive fish displayed histologically visible pathological changes typified by epithelial hyperplasia and subepithelial inflammation with associated bacterial inclusions, confirmed by fluorescent insitu hybridization to contain Ca.B.cysticola. The results strongly suggest that Ca.B.cysticola infections transmit directly from fish to fish and that the bacterium is directly associated with the pathological changes observed in the exposed, previously naive fish.
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