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PARASITOLOGY
卷 136, 期 6, 页码 615-625出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182009005800
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Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae; real-time PCR; temperature; proliferative kidney disease; rainbow trout
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Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) of salmonids, caused by Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, can lead to high mortalities at elevated water temperature. WC evaluated the hypothesis that this mortality is caused by increasing parasite intensity. T. bryosalmonae-infected rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were reared at different water temperatures and changes in parasite concentrations in the kidney were compared to cumulative mortalities. Results of parasite quantification by a newly developed real-time PCR agreed with the number of parasites detected by immunohistochemistry, except for very low or very high parasite loads because of heterogenous distribution of the parasites in the kidney. Two experiments were performed, where fish were exposed to temperatures of 12, 14, 16, 18 or 19 C after an initial exposure to an infectious environment at 12-16 C resulting in 100% prevalence of infected fish after 5 to 14 days of exposure. While mortalities differed significantly between all investigated water temperatures, significant differences in final parasite loads were only found between fish kept at 12 C and all other groups. Differences in parasite load between fish kept at 14 C to 19 C were not significant. These findings provide evidence that there is no direct link between parasite intensity wind fish mortality.
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