Salmonids are affected by the economically significant whirling disease (WD) caused by the
myxozoan parasite Myxobolus cerebralis. In the past, it was endemic to Eurasia, but it has …

Background Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) affects salmonid populations in European
and North-American rivers. It is caused by the endoparasitic myxozoan Tetracapsuloides …

Epidemiological studies are crucial to understand infectious diseases in both captive and
free-ranging fish. Such studies on myxozoan fish parasites are rare or incomplete, owing to …

Many pathogens interact and evolve in communities where more than one host species is
present, yet our understanding of host–pathogen specialization is mostly informed by …

Management of invasive species and pathogens requires information about the traffic of
potential vectors. Such information is often taken from vector traffic models fitted to survey …

We investigated the involvement of oligochaetes in the life cycles of fresh water myxozoan
parasites in Brazil. In a fish farm in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, we examined 192 …

Myxobolus cerebralis is the parasite causing whirling disease, which has dramatic
ecological impacts due to its potential to cause high mortality in salmonids. The large-scale …

Although vaccination programs are routinely used in terrestrial environments to protect wild
and captive populations against infectious disease, their use in fish populations has been …

PROLIFERATIVE kidney disease (PKD) is a high-mortality pathology affecting freshwater
salmonid populations in Europe and North America. Its causative agent, the myxozoan …