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Tuberculosis in Pacific salmon and steelhead trout

Creator:

Wood, James W., Ordal, Erling Josef, 1906-, and Oregon. Fish Commission

Abstract:

Tuberculosis in salmonoid fishes was first observed in the 1952 run of fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) returning to the Bonneville Hatchery of the Oregon Fish Commission. In the studies reported here, tuberculosis was found not only in adult spring chinook but in silver salmon (0. kisutch), blueback salmon (0....

Resource Type:

Technical Report

Full Text:

spontaneous tuberculosis has been reported in fish from both fresh water and sea water, this disease appears