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Efficacy of selected oral chemotherapeutants against Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ciliophora: Ophyroglenidae) infecting rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

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Shinn A, Wootten R, Cote I & Sommerville C (2003) Efficacy of selected oral chemotherapeutants against Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ciliophora: Ophyroglenidae) infecting rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 55 (1), pp. 17-22. https://doi.org/10.3354/dao055017

Abstract
The chemotherapeutic efficacy of 6 in-feed compounds against Ichthyophthirius multifiliis Fouquet, 1876 was assessed using experimental infections of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum) fingerlings. Trial doses of 104 ppm amprolium hydrochloride or 65 ppm clopidol fed to fish for 10 d prior to infection significantly reduced the number of trophonts establishing in trout fingerlings by 62.0 and 35.2% respectively. In-feed treatments of infected trout with either 63 or 75 ppm amprolium hydrochloride, 92 ppm clopidol, or 38, 43 or 47 ppm salinomycin sodium for 10 d also significantly reduced the number of surviving trophonts by 77.6 and 32.2% for amprolium, 20.1% for clopidol and 80.2, 71.9 and 93.3% respectively for salinomycin sodium.

Keywords
Ichthyophthirius multifiliis; Whitespot; Amprolium; Salinomycin sodium; Clopidol; Oncorhynchus mykiss

Journal
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms: Volume 55, Issue 1

StatusPublished
Publication date30/06/2003
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/10210
PublisherInter-Research
ISSN0177-5103