Piscirickettsia salmonis shedding and tissue burden, and hematological responses during cohabitation infections in chum Oncorhynchus keta, pink O. gorbuscha and Atlantic salmon Salmo salar

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Long, Amy, Jones, Simon R. M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2021
• Subjects: Research Article; Keta; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7935282/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33667267; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248098

BACKGROUND: Salmonid rickettsial septicemia is an emergent and geographically widespread disease of marine-farmed salmonids caused by infection with the water-borne bacterium Piscirickettsia salmonis. Very little is known about the route, timing, or magnitude of bacterial shedding from infected fish...