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Kidney Disease Postorbital Lesions in Spring Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Author(s) -
Hendricks Jerry D.,
Leek Steve L.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1975)104<805:kdplis>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - oncorhynchus , chinook wind , exophthalmos , biology , fishery , zoology , anatomy , medicine , fish <actinopterygii> , surgery
Gross exophthalmos in one or both eyes of yearling spring chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) was caused by postorbital, granulomatous inflammatory tissue that developed in response to invasion of the site by Corynebacterium sp., the causative agent of bacterial kidney disease.