Ecological studies of helminth parasites of the largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, from Lake Naivasha and the Oloidien Bay, Kenya

dc.contributor.authorAloo, P.A.
dc.contributor.editorVerwoerd, Daniel Wynand
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-01T11:50:16Z
dc.date.available2012-10-01T11:50:16Z
dc.date.created2012
dc.date.issued1999
dc.descriptionThe articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 600dpi. Adobe Acrobat v.9 was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.en
dc.description.abstractThe parasites of 541 largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, were studied over a period of 12 months. The results showed that the bass from Lake Naivasha are paratenic hosts of Contracaecum sp. larva and final hosts for the acanthocephalan Polyacanthorhynchus kenyensis. The nematode occurred in large numbers in fish caught in the more saline Oloidien Bay but only in small numbers in those in the main lake. Bass in the main lake, however, were more heavily infected with acanthocephalans than those in Oloidien Bay. One of the major pathological effects of the acanthocephalan was perforation of the liver by the spiny proboscis. Seasonal variation was not apparent for either of the parasites. The intensity of infection by Contracaecum sp. larva increased with the size of the host and female fish were more heavily infected than males.en
dc.description.librarianmn2012en
dc.description.sponsorshipGerman Academic Exchange Centre (DAAD) in Nairobi.en
dc.identifier.citationAloo, PA 1999, 'Ecological studies of helminth parasites of the largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, from Lake Naivasha and the Oloidien Bay, Kenya’. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 73-79.en
dc.identifier.issn0330-2465
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/19935
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPublished by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Instituteen
dc.rights© ARC-Onderstepoort (original). © University of Pretoria. Dept of Library Services (digital).en
dc.subjectVeterinary medicineen
dc.subjectEcologyen
dc.subjectHelminth parasitesen
dc.subjectKenyaen
dc.subjectLake Naivashaen
dc.subjectLargemouth bassen
dc.subjectMicropterus salmoidesen
dc.subjectOloidien Bayen
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary medicine -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary parasitologyen
dc.titleEcological studies of helminth parasites of the largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, from Lake Naivasha and the Oloidien Bay, Kenyaen
dc.typeArticleen

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