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Background   Parvicapsula pseudobranchicola  (Myxozoa) causes widespread infections in farmed Atlantic salmon in northern Norway. Heavily infected salmon become runts, probably due to vision impairment or blindness. The salmon are likely infected by waterborne actinospores, released by an alternating annelid host, but the life cycle of  P. pseudobranchicola  is unknown. Seatrout and Arctic charr have been considered possible hosts for the parasite, but firm evidence has been lacking.    Findings  We show for the first time the presence of mature spores of  P. pseudobranchicola  in seatrout. The seatrout were infected with high intensities of  P. pseudobranchicola  in the pseudobranchs in early April. The presence of mature spores in early spring suggests that the fish had been infected late the previous year, a pattern of infection similar to that observed for farmed salmon stocked in autumn. Although heavily infected, the fish did not display any symptoms consistent with parvicapsulosis. The results suggest that the life cycle of  P. pseudobranchicola  is more adapted to seatrout, rather than to Atlantic salmon.    Conclusions  The presence of mature spores of  P. pseudobranchicola  in seatrout confirms that seatrout is a natural host for this myxosporean and this is also the first record of these spores in the pseudobranch of a wild salmonid. Furthermore, wild trout from non-farming areas may become heavily infected with  P. pseudobranchicola , developing pseudobranch pathology resembling that of farmed Atlantic salmon suffering from parvicapsulosis.

parasites and vectors

Seatrout (Salmo trutta) is a natural host for Parvicapsula pseudobranchicola (Myxozoa, Myxosporea), an important pathogen of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)