Project: Efficacy of Fumagillin to Prevent Experimentally Induced Whirling Disease in Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

Primary Investigator: Dave Erdahl
Project Summary: Five trials were conducted evaluating the efficacy of fumagillin to control/prevent whirling disease in salmonids. Four trials involved rainbow trout; one trial involved steelhead trout and Chinook salmon. Based on spore count data and histological evaluation of fish, 180 and 240 days post-exposure, fumagillin treatment did not appear to be efficacious. In all trials, spores count data and histological score were similar in both positive control and treated fish; and, with the exception of Chinook salmon, exhibited clinical signs of whirling disease to at least some degree.
Funding Period: 1998-1999
Final Report: Erdahl_98-99.pdf
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