Development of a Piscirickettsia salmonis immersion challenge model to investigate the comparative susceptibility of three salmon species

• Published in: Journal of Fish Diseases
• Main Authors: Long, Amy, Goodall, Aidan, Jones, Simon R.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Sockeye; Atlantic salmon; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfd.13261; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jfd.13261; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/jfd.13261

Abstract Piscirickettsia salmonis , the aetiological agent of salmonid rickettsial septicaemia (SRS), is a global pathogen of wild and cultured marine salmonids. Here, we describe the development and application of a reproducible, standardized immersion challenge model to induce clinical SRS in juve...