INVESTIGADORES
DOLDAN Maria Del Socorro
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Epidemiology, histopathology and ultrastructure of Bonamia exitiosa infected Ostrea puelchana and Bonamia sp infected O. stentina from San Matías Gulf, Patagonia, Argentina
Autor/es:
KROECK, MARINA; MORSAN, ENRIQUE M.; OEHRENS KISSNER, ERICA; DOLDAN, MARÍA DEL SOCORRO; ZAIDMAN, PAULA; CALVO, MANUELA
Lugar:
Buenos Aires
Reunión:
Congreso; 2012 International Congress on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control and 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology ; 2012
Institución organizadora:
Society for Invertebrate Pathology Officers
Resumen:
Oysters are one of the best known groups of molluscs and one the highest importance in commercial aquaculture. However, flat oysters have almost disappeared due to high mortalities produced by parasites of the genus Bonamia that severely affected oyster farms around the world. In Argentina, experimental marine aquaculture began with the native specie, Ostrea puelchana, in 1995. One year later an abnormal mortality was reported in San Antonio Bay (San Matías Gulf) which aetiological agent was B. exitiosa. The presence of this pathogen was the first record for this genus in the SW Atlantic Ocean and it is the only OIE Notifiable Disease of aquatic organisms known in Argentina. The culture area inside San Antonio Bay was identified as the focus of infection from which the parasite spread. Infection radiated from this focus through the oysters beds located at the SW and NE of the bay. Another specie of oyster without commercial value, Ostrea stentina cohabits with O. puelchana in shallow waters of the San Matías Gulf. The density of the populations of this species in some beds of the gulf has dramatically decreased in the last decade. Recent histopathological studies revealed the presence of a Bonamia‐like pathogen similar to that affects O. puelchana.In this presentation we review epidemiological information concerning the local specie of Bonamia obtained until 2011, and also we described the histopathology of O. puelchana infected by B. exitiosa and the ultrastructural description of this pathogen.