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Factors affecting the Ceratomyxa shasta infectious cycle and transmission between polychaete and salmonid hosts

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Bjork, Sarah J.

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Ceratomyxa shasta is a myxozoan parasite that infects salmonid fishes causing the disease ceratomyxosis that is characterized by severe hemorrhage and necrosis of the intestine and death of the fish host. Ceratomyxa shasta is endemic to the Pacific Northwestern United States and Canada, where epizootics are reported for both wild...

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Dissertation

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Salmonid Hosts AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Sarah J. Bjork for the degree of Doctor of
Defenses of Susceptible and Resistant Chinook Salmon (Onchorhynchus tshawytscha) Against the Myxozoan Parasite Ceratomyxa shasta

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Bjork, Sarah J., Zhang, Yong-An, Hurst, Charlene N., Alonso-Naveiro, Maria E., Alexander, Julie D., Sunyer, J. Oriol, and Bartholomew, Jerri L.

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We investigated intra-specific variation in the response of salmon to infection with the myxozoan Ceratomyxa shasta by comparing the progress of parasite infection and measures of host immune response in susceptible and resistant Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha at days 12, 25 and 90 post exposure. There were no differences in...

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Article

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) Against 1 the Myxozoan Parasite Ceratomyxa shasta 2 3 4 Sarah J. Bjorka, Yong-An Zhangb,c