Role of red swamp crayfish for transmission of flavobacterial infection to African sharptooth catsish, Clarias gariepinus [electronic resource].
Language: English Summary language: Arabic Description: P. 32-47Other title:- دور استاكوزا المستنقعات الحمراء فى نقل عدوى الفلافوباتيريا الى الاسماك القطية (القراميط) [Added title page title]
- Assiut veterinary medical journal, 2010 v. 56 (127) [electronic resource].
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The aim of this study was to investigate the infection of Red Swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii with Flavobacterium columnare and the role of crayfish for transmission of columnaris disease to wild sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus, 100 crayfish were subject to clinical, postmortem and bacteriological examinations. Pathogenicity of Flavobacterium columnare was also assessed to sharptooth catfish. Out of 100 apparently health crayfish, F. columnare was isolated from only 15 (15%) crayfish.
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