Appendix 5: Number of Ornamental Fish Cases Submitted by Non-AQIS Sources to the State Laboratory, Western Australia by Disease Agent and Calender Year

 

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

Number of AQIS fish submissions Diagnoses

9

13

15

12

9

9

20

Viral -specify eg.

Goldfish Herpesvirus Haematopoietic Necrosis

 

 

 

2

1

1

3

Spring Viraemia Carp Virus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Iridoviruses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rhabdovirus carpio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IPNV

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lymphocystis

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

Renal Necrosis suggestive of viral infection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kidney Spleen Liver necrosis ~ Viral Infection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carp Pox (herpes virus)

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

Pancreatic Necrosis ~ viral

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bacterial - specify

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

Aeromonas salmonicida

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edwardsiella tarda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chlamydia/Rickettsia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gram Negative Rods

1

3

 

 

 

 

 

Aeromonas hydrophila

 

 

1

2

 

 

3

Mycobacterium marinum

1

 

1

1

 

1

 

Pleisiomonas shigelloides

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Streptococcus sp.(non-iniae)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Streptococcus iniae

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flavobacterium columnaris

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

Vibrio alginolyticus

1

 

 

 

1

 

 

Shewanella putrifaciens

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

Parasitic

Protozoans -Ciliates

Chilodonella

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

Tetrahymena

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

Uronema

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

Ichthyophthirius

11

1

2

 

1

 

2

Trichodina

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

Protozoans - Amoeba

Sphaerospora-like

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Protozoans - Flagellates

Oodinium

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

Ichthyobodo (Costia)

 

1

 

1

 

2

2

Cryptobia

 

 

2

1

2

1

 

Protozoan unidentified

1 kidney possibly

 

 

 

 

 

 

Myxosporidian

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

unidentified

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Myxosporidian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Muscle myxosporidian – Pleistophora like

 

1

 

 

 

1

 

Myxosporidian peritoneal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

granulomas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trematodes - Monogeneans

Gyrodactylus (salt)

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

Dactylogyrus

1

2

1

1

 

 

1

Nematodes – specify

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Digeneans – specify

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cestodes – specify

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

Crustaceans – specify

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fungal

Saprolegnia

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

EUS

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

Basidiobolus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neoplasia

3

1

1

2

1

 

 

Water Quality Problems

 

1

 

 

 

1

7

Cyanide Capture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Submitted as “Dropsy” – cause not determined

 

 

1

1

 

 

 

1 Cryptocaryon

This is an image of a graph Figure 4. Breakdown of cases submitted in Western Australia, 2000-2005, by category. Myxosp = myxosporidians, EUS = Epizootic ulcerative syndrome.

Figure 4. Breakdown of cases submitted in Western Australia, 2000-2005, by category. Myxosp = myxosporidians, EUS = Epizootic ulcerative syndrome.

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