Use of a live vaccine to modulate Cryptobia salmositica infections in Salmo salar

Dis Aquat Organ. 2007 Jun 7;76(1):45-8. doi: 10.3354/dao076045.

Abstract

The vaccine strain of Cryptobia salmositica multiplies in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar and it can modulate the severity of the disease in Cryptobia-infected individuals. Fish injected with the vaccine 3 d post-infection with C. salmositica had lower peak parasitaemias and higher antibody titres than infected fish given the vaccine 7 d post-infection or those infected fish that were not given the vaccine.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Fish Diseases / blood
  • Fish Diseases / parasitology
  • Fish Diseases / prevention & control*
  • Fisheries
  • Kinetoplastida / immunology*
  • Kinetoplastida / pathogenicity
  • Protozoan Infections / blood
  • Protozoan Infections / immunology
  • Protozoan Infections / prevention & control
  • Protozoan Infections, Animal*
  • Protozoan Vaccines* / administration & dosage
  • Protozoan Vaccines* / immunology
  • Salmo salar / immunology
  • Salmo salar / parasitology*
  • Time Factors
  • Vaccination / veterinary*

Substances

  • Protozoan Vaccines