Project: Finding Solutions to Whirling Disease in Trout: Interactions Among the Parasite and its Host

Primary Investigator: Mansour El-Matbouli
Project Summary: This research showed the significant relationship between the release of infective TAMs from the worm, and water temperature-information that can be used to manage the disease. (1) 15 degrees C is the optimal temperature for TAM development and release from the Tubifex worm host. (2) A significant number of TAMs developed at these temperatures survived up to 15 days in water. (3) Non-susceptible tubificid worms are able to ingest M. cerebralis, but unable to develop and release the fish-infective form of the parasite, leading to possibilities for biological control of the disease through interbreeding of susceptible and non-susceptible worm host populations.
Funding Period: 1998-1999
Final Report: El-Matbouli_98-99.pdf
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