INTRODUCTION: Temporal elevation of water temperature positively affects immune activity and disease resistance in poikilothermic teleost fish. The ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis, an important fish species for Japanese freshwater fisheries, is usuall...
This report describes Exophiala infection in cultured striped jack, Pseudocaranx dentex, in Japan in 2005. One hundred out of 35 000 fish died per day and mortalities continued for 1 month. Diseased fish showed swelling of the abdomen and kidney d...
This study compared the histopathology of young striped jack Pseudocaranx dentex experimentally infected with the dematiaceous fungus Ochroconis humicola NJM 0472 with that of spontaneously infected fish. Moribund and freshly dead fish from both g...
Shinpei Wada   Osamu Kurata   Kishio Hatai   Edward J. Noga   Michael J. Dykstra   John S. Burke   
FISH PATHOLOGY 44(3) 151-153 2009年9月
Examination via light and electron microscopy of juvenile summer flounder Paralichthys dentatus experiencing a subacute to chronic mortality revealed severe necrotizing hepatitis characterized by necrotic multinucleated giant cells (syncytia). The...
Two fungal pathogens of the mantis shrimp (Oratosquilla oratoria) in Yamaguchi and Aichi Prefectures, Japan are described as the new species Plectosporium oratosquillae and Acremonium sp. (a member of the Emericellopsis marine clade). Both fungi i...