Characterization of Pfiesteria ichthyocidal activity.
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Article: Drgon et al. (4) concluded that the “aquarium bioassay format is unsuitable to accurately assess the ichthyocidal activity of Pfiesteria spp.” and “ichthyocidal activity of Pfiesteria spp. is mostly due to direct interactions of the zoospores with fish skin and gill epithelia rather than to soluble factors.” These conclusions are not justified, because microbial community analyses of control aquariums were not included and previous studies (5, 8) that utilized similar experimental approaches and found significant (100%) fish death attributable to soluble factors were overlooked.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Applied and environmental microbiology
دوره 71 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005