Elevated Seawater Temperature and Infection with Neoparamoeba perurans Exacerbate Complex Gill Disease in Farmed Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) in British Columbia, Canada

• Published in: Microorganisms
• Main Authors: Jones, Simon R. M., Price, Derek
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2022
• Subjects: Article; British Columbia; Canada; Pacific; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9147833/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35630481; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10051039

Gill disorders and diseases are emergent health concerns affecting marine-farmed salmon, for which the causal factors are poorly understood in British Columbia (BC), Canada. This study sought to describe and compare spatial and temporal patterns of infection with Neoparamoeba perurans, the causal ag...