Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Diplostomiasis in cultured and wild tilapia Oreochromis niloticus in Guerrero State, Mexico.
- Journal:
- Parasitology research
- Year:
- 2009
- Authors:
- Violante-González, Juan et al.
- Affiliation:
- Unidad Acadé
Abstract
This paper is a comparative study of Diplostomum (Austrodiplostomum) compactum (Lutz, 1928) in Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (Linneo) from two fish farms and two nearby coastal lagoons in Guerrero state, Mexico. The higher infections levels in cultured tilapia than wild tilapia is attributed to higher fish densities in the culture systems and higher abundance of the snail Biomphalaria cf. havanensis (Pteiffer), first intermediate host of this parasite in freshwater and brackish water systems.
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