title: Development of an in vivo assay to assess attachment of Neoparamoeba sp. (an amphizoic gymnamoeba) to the gills of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L
creator: Crosbie, PBB
creator: Adams, MB
creator: Attard, M
creator: Nowak, BF
subject: 300703 Aquaculture
description: Amoebic gill disease (AGD) in marine cultured
Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., in Tasmania is
caused by the amphizoic protozoan Neoparamoeba
sp. after it attaches to the gills (Zilberg & Munday
2000). The disease is characterized histologically by
hyperplastic lesions resulting in lamellar fusion
often with the amoebae attached (Munday, Lange,
Foster, Lester & Handlinger 1993; Adams &
Nowak 2001, 2003). AGD is a significant problem
for Atlantic salmon growers in Tasmania and at
present is controlled by bathing in fresh water once
a presumptive diagnosis has been made (see review
by Munday, Zilberg & Findlay 2001).
publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
date: 2007
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/4400/1/4400.pdf
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2761.2007.00805.x
identifier: Crosbie, PBB and Adams, MB and Attard, M and Nowak, BF (2007) Development of an in vivo assay to assess attachment of Neoparamoeba sp. (an amphizoic gymnamoeba) to the gills of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L. Journal of Fish Diseases, 30 (3). pp. 187-190. ISSN 0140-7775
relation: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/4400/