Bacterial Gill Disease of Salmonid Fish

Bacterial Gill Disease

Bacterial gill disease (BGD) is a common external infection of hatcheryreared salmonids and occasionally of warm water species reared under intensive conditions. As defined by Wood (1974), the name of the disease describes the clinical signs of bacterial infections on the gills. The etiological agent of the disease is considered to be one or more species of filamentous bacteria including Flavob...

Bacterial Gill Disease of Freshwater Fishes

Bacterial Gill Disease of Freshwater Fishes

Bacterial Kidney Disease in salmonid fish Development of methods to assess immune functions in salmonid fish during infection by Renibacterium salmoninarum

Rearing unit-level factors associated with bacterial gill disease treatment in two Ontario, Canada government salmonid hatcheries.

Early-rearing salmonids in Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) fish hatcheries have been consistently affected by bacterial gill disease (BGD) (causative agent: Flavobacterium branchiophilum) for many years. Separate retrospective epidemiological investigations of BGD treatments at two OMNR fish hatcheries (Hatcheries A and B) for the 1999 production year were conducted using on-site h...