Disease data

Myxobolosis (whirling disease)

Reserves
Fish
Protozoan disease; Myxosporea; Myxosoma cerebralis

Summary from the online OIE Diagnostic Manual

Salmonid whirling disease was discovered in Europe in 1893 and has since been spread around the world with shipments of cultured and wild fish. The causative agent is the protozoan parasite Myxobolus cerebralis, whose taxonomy and life cycle remain contro

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