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Two Myxobolus spp. infecting the kidney of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in the River Nile at Beni-Suef governorate, Egypt, and the associated renal changes

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Two Myxobolus spp. are described from the kidney of the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) collected from the River Nile, Egypt. The prevalence of infection was 61 % (47/77), with the infected fish in each case parasitized by the two Myxobolus species simultaneously. The infection was exhibited as free spores in Bowman capsules and renal glomeruli, which makes their original structures difficult to discern. In some cases, the infection appeared as a fibrous plasmodia-like structure containing degenerated developmental stages and spores in the interstitium. The paper identifies each species based on the morphological characteristics of its spores and identifies the histological impacts of Myxobolus infection in this species of fish.

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The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for funding the work through the research group project number RGP-004.

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  1. Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Abdel-Azeem S. Abdel-Baki, Khalid E. Ibrahim & Saleh Al-Quraishy

  2. Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt

    Abdel-Azeem S. Abdel-Baki, Heba M. Abdel-Haleem, Thabet Sakran & Eman Zayed

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Abdel-Baki, AA.S., Abdel-Haleem, H.M., Sakran, T. et al. Two Myxobolus spp. infecting the kidney of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in the River Nile at Beni-Suef governorate, Egypt, and the associated renal changes. Parasitol Res 114, 1107–1112 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-014-4282-1

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