Experimental Horizontal Transmission of Enterospora nucleophila (Microsporea: Enterocytozoonidae) in Gilthead Sea Bream ( Sparus aurata )
is a microsporidian enteroparasite that infects mainly the intestine of gilthead sea bream ( ), leading to an emaciative syndrome. Thus far, the only available information about this infection comes from natural outbreaks in farmed fish. The aim of the present study was to determine whether . could...
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Published in | Animals (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 2; p. 362 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Switzerland
MDPI AG
01.02.2021
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Summary: | is a microsporidian enteroparasite that infects mainly the intestine of gilthead sea bream (
), leading to an emaciative syndrome. Thus far, the only available information about this infection comes from natural outbreaks in farmed fish. The aim of the present study was to determine whether
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could be transmitted horizontally using naturally infected fish as donors, and to establish an experimental in vivo procedure to study this host-parasite model without depending on natural infections. Naïve fish were exposed to the infection by cohabitation, effluent, or intubated either orally or anally with intestinal scrapings of donor fish in four different trials. We succeeded in detecting parasite in naïve fish in all the challenges, but the infection level and the disease signs were always milder than in donor fish. The parasite was found in peripheral blood of naïve fish at 4 weeks post-challenge (wpc) in oral and effluent routes, and up to 12 wpc in the anal transmission trial. Molecular diagnosis detected
in other organs besides intestine, such as gills, liver, stomach or heart, although the intensity was not as high as in the target tissue. The infection tended to disappear through time in all the challenge routes assayed, except in the anal infection route. |
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ISSN: | 2076-2615 2076-2615 |
DOI: | 10.3390/ani11020362 |