Parasitic diseases in cultured and wild caught fish

Key research

• Diagnostic tests for Aphanomyces species
• Parasites of pearl and rock oysters
• Anisakid nematodes in Western Australian fish

Funding bodies

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

Related publications

Bearham D., Spiers Z., Raidal S., Jones B.J. and Nicholls P.K. 2007. Molecular characterisation of a haplosporidian parasite infecting rock oysters Saccostrea cuccullata in north Western Australia. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, in press.

Chai, J.-Y., Murrell, D. and Lymbery, A.J. 2005. Fishborne parasitic zoonoses: status and issues. International Journal for Parasitology 35: 1233-1254.

Doupé, R.G., Lymbery, A.J., Wong, S. and Hobbs, R.P. 2003. Larval anisakid infections of some tropical fish species from northwest Australia. Journal of Helminthology 77: 363-365.

Hesp, S.A., Hobbs, R.P. and Potter, I.C. 2002. Infection of the gonads of Glaucosoma hebraicum by the nematode Philometra lateolabracis: occurrence and host response. Journal of Fish Biology 60: 663-673.

Lymbery, A.J., Doupé, R.G., Munshi, M.A. and Wong, T. 2002. Larvae of Contracaecum sp. among inshore fish species of southwestern Australia. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 51: 157-159.

Raidal, S., Cross, G., Fenwick, S., Nicholls, P., Nowak, B., Ellard, K. and Stephens, F. 2004. Aquatic animal health: Exotic disease training manual. FRDC Final Report No. 2002/645

Stephens F.J., Cleary J.J., Jenkins, G., Jones, J.B., Raidal S.R. and Thomas, J.B. 2003. Treatments to control Haliotrema abaddon in the West Australian dhufish, Glaucosoma hebraicum. Aquaculture 215: 1-10.