During the early 1950s, Sammy M. Ray discovered that his high-salt modification of fluid
thioglycollate sterility test medium caused dramatic in vitro enlargement of Perkinsus …

To determine the agent responsible for the massive mortalities of the Pacific oyster
Crassostrea gigas in northwest Mexico, 30 oysters were sampled after a severe mortality …

The protozoan Perkinsus marinus has been associated with high mortality episodes of the
eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica in the USA. The presence of P. marinus on the pleasure …

Over the past 40 years, knowledge of infectious diseases in abalone has gone from nearly
absent to prolific, largely as products of investigations of mass mortality events in both wild …

Oysters of the genus Crassostrea are considered good examples of an r-selected marine
invertebrate with small egg size, high fecundity, and multiple spawning events per year …

Perkinsosis has been recognized as one of the major threats to natural and farmed bivalve
populations, many of which are of commercial as well as environmental significance. Three …

Perkinus marinus causes a devastating disease, known as Dermo, in the Eastern oyster
Crassostrea virginica. Routine detection of the disease is traditionally accomplished by the …

Perkinsus olseni is a protozoan parasite that infects a wide variety of molluscs worldwide,
causing economic losses in the aquaculture sector. In the present study, a quantitative PCR …

During analyses of the invasive Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis for
pathologies in Tokyo Bay, infection by the protozoan parasite Perkinsus beihaiensis was …

El ostión japonés Crassostrea gigas es el molusco más cultivado en el noroeste de México,
y la almeja negra Chione fluctifraga representa una pesquería comercial emergente, la cual …