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Category
Aquaculture
Title Amøbisk gjellebetennelse (AGD): Temperatur og salinitetsstudie med Neoparamoeba perurans-positiv fisk fra felt - Amoebic gill inflammation (AGD): Temperature and salinity study with Neoparamoeba perurans-positive fish from field Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
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Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source National
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Institutions involved
NA - Health, Safety & Environment. FOMAS Group (Norway) ,
NA - PHARMAQ AS (Norway) ,
Start year 2013 End year 2013 Funding (€) € 77,700 Website https://www.fhf.no/prosjekter/prosjektbasen/900888/ Summary Amoebic gill inflammation (AGD) is caused by the parasitic amoeba Neoparamoeba perurans and has long been the cause of large losses in Atlantic salmon farming in Tasmania and Australia. Disease outbreaks have also occurred sporadically in Scotland and Ireland, but with a significant increase in incidence in recent years.
In Norway, the disease manifested itself for the first time in 2006, but was since absent until the autumn of 2012 when the disease was diagnosed in four known cases along the west coast of Norway. New timeliness and a limited amount of clinical data from Norwegian AGD cases increase the need for knowledge. Outbreaks of AGD are temperature-associated, but there is little knowledge about the amoeba's survival rate at low temperatures.
In light of experiences from Scotland and Ireland, there is great uncertainty about whether a temperature increase from the current relatively low winter temperatures will predispose to AGD in populations with already established infection.
Goals:
• To gain knowledge about whether low winter temperatures affect the amoeba's survival in infected populations.
• To compile data on infection and disease development in the amoeba-infected population and whether this correlates with temperature increase.
Keywords
Parasite;
Fish health;
Salmon;
Fish;
Open sea aquaculture;
Disease;
Cage aquaculture;
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