PKX, the Causative Agent of Proliferative Kidney Disease (PKD) in Pacific Salmonid Fishes and Its Affinities with the Myxozoa1

L. Kent, Michael; P. Hedrick, Ronald

doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1985.tb03047.x

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PKX, the Causative Agent of Proliferative Kidney Disease (PKD) in Pacific Salmonid Fishes and Its Affinities with the Myxozoa1

Published in The Journal of Protozoology • May 1, 1985

Authors:

Michael L. Kent

Ronald P. Hedrick

Abstract

Proliferative kidney disease (PKD), caused by an unclassified protozoan (PKX), is reported from Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum) and O. kisutch (Walbaum), and steelhead trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson, held at the Mad River Hatchery in California, USA. The cumulative mortality at...

Subject

Salmo

Biology

Oncorhynchus

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