Author: Ken Wolf

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Published: 1959

Total Pages: 16

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Transmission of kidney disease was studied in eastern brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) held at 12.5 degrees C. Fish were subjected to almost daily inoculations or exposures for 102 days, and observations were continued for an additional 200 days. Two strains of the causative bacterium were compared. The bacterium was fed alone, with glass splinters, and with bile salts. It was also inoculated by two methods of abrasion. Other fish were inoculated subdermally and held at 7 degrees C. and at 12.5 degrees C. in order to determine the effects of these two temperatures on the kidney disease infections.