Bettge, K.; Segner, Helmut; Burki, R.; Schmidt-Posthaus, Heike; Wahli, Thomas (2009). Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) of rainbow trout: temperature- and time-related changes of Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae DNA in the kidney. Parasitology, 136(6), pp. 615-25. London: Cambridge University Press 10.1017/S0031182009005800
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Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) of salmonids, caused by Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, can lead to high mortalities at elevated water temperature. We 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 degrees C after an initial exposure to an infectious environment at 12-16 degrees 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 degrees C and all other groups. Differences in parasite load between fish kept at 14 degrees C to 19 degrees C were not significant. These findings provide evidence that there is no direct link between parasite intensity and fish mortality.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP) > Center for Fish and Wildlife Health (FIWI) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Segner, Helmut, Schmidt-Posthaus, Heike, Wahli, Thomas |
ISSN: |
0031-1820 |
Publisher: |
Cambridge University Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Factscience Import |
Date Deposited: |
04 Oct 2013 15:25 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:26 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1017/S0031182009005800 |
Web of Science ID: |
000266652900005 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.38348 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/38348 (FactScience: 221202) |
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