MacMillan, R., et al. “Development of an Experimental Model for Anophryoides Haemophila (Scuticociliatida: Orchitophryidae), a Parasite of American Lobster Homarus Americanus”. Deltion Tes Ellenikes Kteniatrikes Etaireias = Journal of the Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society, vol. 54, no. 3, 2003, pp. 201-8, https://scholar2.islandarchives.ca/islandora/object/ir%3Air-batch6-3770.

Genre

  • Journal Article
Contributors
Author: MacMillan, R.
Author: Cawthorn, Richard J.
Author: Despres, B.
Author: Athanassopoulou, F.
Author: Speare, David J.
Date Issued
2003
Abstract

The principal lesions due to the ciliate Anophryoides haemophila in experimentally infected lobsters are observed in the gills and connective tissue from the 9th week post-infection. These lesions were not related to the inoculum of parasites and were consistent in all inoculum studies (2000, 10 000 and 500 000 ciliates per lobster) and were present in both euthanized and dead lobsters. The higher inocula resulted only in higher numbers of parasites observed in sections of gills and in the connective tissue of more organs, with no penetration to the parenchyma of any organ. Furthermore, the highest inoculum of ciliates (500 000 per lobster) resulted in a shorter course of disease development and consequently, experimental lobsters died between 4th and 6th week post-infection. This was not observed at inocula of 2000 and 10 000 ciliates per lobster, where mortality occurred 11-14 weeks post-infection..

Note

Laboratory of Ichthyology & Fish Pathology, University of Thessaly, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, School of Health Sciences, 221 Trikalon Str., Karditsa 431 00, Greece.

Athens, Greece: Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society.

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Language

  • English

Subjects

  • pathogenesis
  • animals
  • Protozoa
  • Malacostraca
  • Protozoan Helminth Mollusc and Arthropod Parasites of Animals
  • mortality
  • Anophryoides haemophila
  • Homarus americanus
  • aquatic organisms
  • Homarus
  • Scuticociliatida
  • disease models
  • Crustacea
  • Aquaculture Animals
  • Ciliophora
  • Nephropidae
  • experimental infections
  • aquatic animals
  • arthropods
  • invertebrates
  • gills
  • Decapoda
  • connective tissue
Page range
201-208
Host Title
Deltion tes Ellenikes Kteniatrikes Etaireias = Journal of the Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society
Volume
54
Issue
3
ISSN
0257-2354

Department