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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Disease threats to wild and cultured abalone in Australia

Cecile Dang A B and Terrence L Miller A C
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A Fish Health Laboratory, Department of Fisheries Western Australia, 3 Baron-Hay Court, South Perth, WA 6151, Australia

B Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Science, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia. Email: cecile.dang@fish.wa.gov.au

C Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, College of Marine and Environmental Science, James Cook University, Cairns, Qld 4878, Australia. Email: terry.miller@fish.wa.gov.au

Microbiology Australia 37(3) 137-139 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA16047
Published: 10 August 2016

Abstract

Abalone species are important for recreational and commercial fisheries and aquaculture in many jurisdictions in Australia. Clinical infections with viral, bacterial and parasitic pathogens can cause significant losses of wild and cultured stock, and subclinical infections may result in decreased productivity and growth. Infections with abalone herpesviruses (AbHV), Vibrio spp. and parasites of the genus Perkinsus are of particular concern to Australian fisheries. Here we provide a brief overview of these three major pathogen groups and their diagnoses from an Australian perspective.


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