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Isolation of infectious microalga Prototheca wickerhamii from a carp ( Cyprinus carpio ) – a first confirmed case report of protothecosis in a fish
Author(s) -
Jagielski T,
Dyląg M,
Roesler U,
Murugaiyan J
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of fish diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-2761
pISSN - 0140-7775
DOI - 10.1111/jfd.12614
Subject(s) - cyprinus , biology , carp , common carp , isolation (microbiology) , microbiology and biotechnology , fish <actinopterygii> , fishery
Protothecosis is a rare infection caused by environmentally ubiquitous achlorophyllic microalgae of the genus Prototheca . Here, we describe a first case of protothecosis in a carp ( Cyprinus carpio ), which is at the same time the first case of protothecosis in a fish, confirmed by phenotype‐ and molecular‐based methods, including PCR sequencing of the rDNA cluster and protein profiling using matrix‐assisted laser desorption ionization time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry.