Resistance to reinfection in chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha to Loma salmonae (Microsporidia)
| Autor: | M. L. Kent, David J. Speare, S. C. Dawe |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Gills
Gill Chinook wind Fisheries Aquatic Science Kidney Microsporidiosis Microbiology Fish Diseases Aquaculture Salmon Prevalence medicine Animals Seawater Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Salmonidae biology Ecology business.industry Microsporida fungi Antibodies Monoclonal biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Immunohistochemistry Spore Microsporidia Oncorhynchus business |
| Zdroj: | Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 37:205-208 |
| ISSN: | 1616-1580 0177-5103 |
| DOI: | 10.3354/dao037205 |
| Popis: | Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha were experimentally infected per os with Loma salmonae and held in flow-through seawater tanks at 12 to 14 degrees C. The fish exhibited 100% infection when first examined at 7 wk post initial exposure (p.e.), and by 20 wk p.e. they had completely recovered from gill infections. The recovered fish were then re-exposed the following week. All of these fish showed strong protection to new L. salmonae infections, while naïve fish exposed to the same inoculum developed the infection. Most of the re-exposed fish exhibited a few free spores or spores within phagocytes in the kidney interstitium at 20 to 29 wk p.e., but xenomas were not detected in either the gills or visceral organs. The kidney is the primary site of reticulo-endothelial activity, and thus these spores were likely deposited in the kidney by entrapment by fixed macrophages. It is possible that these spores provide immunologic stimuli to reinforce the resistance to new L. salmonae infections. |
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