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

Primary Investigator: Dave Erdahl
Project Summary: A number of hatcheries that grow trout for stocking into the wild have become infected by whirling disease. The purpose of these experiments was to evaluate the efficacy of the antibiotic fumagillin for preventing whirling disease infection in rainbow trout fry. Two fumagillin formulations were tested in several treatment regimes. A slight, but not significant, reduction in infection was noted for two of the treatments. It appears that this antibiotic will not play a role in suppressing whirling disease in hatcheries.
Funding Period: 1999-2000
Final Report: Erdahl_99-00.pdf
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