AMEBAS ISOLATED FROM ORGANS OF FARMED TILAPIAS, OREOCHROMIS-NILOTICUS

Authors
DYKOVA I MACHACKOVA B PECKOVA H
Citation
I. Dykova et al., AMEBAS ISOLATED FROM ORGANS OF FARMED TILAPIAS, OREOCHROMIS-NILOTICUS, Folia parasitologica, 44(2), 1997, pp. 81-90
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Parasitiology
Journal title
Folia parasitologica → ACNP
ISSN journal
00155683
Volume
44
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
81 - 90
Database
ISI
SICI code
0015-5683(1997)44:2<81:AIFOOF>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
Three amoeba species were isolated from 3 out of 193 farmed tilapias, Oreuchromis niloticus (L.), screened for the presence of free-living a moebae in parenchymatous organs. Hurtmannella vermiformis Page, 1967 a nd Rosculus ithacus Hawes, 1963 were isolated from the kidney tissue. The third strain isolated from the liver shared morphological features of Mayorella and Platyamoeha spp. and therefore its taxonomic positio n has not been determined as yet. Pathogenicity of cloned strain of H. vermiformis was proved in two fish hosts.