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Zoosporic fungal parasites of marine biota

DRS at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography

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Title Zoosporic fungal parasites of marine biota
 
Creator RaghuKumar, C.
 
Subject spores
microorganisms
parasites
parasitic diseases
biota
taxonomy
 
Description There are four criteria set forth in Koch's postulates which are essential to prove the causal organism of any disease in nature. These are: (1) association of an organism constantly in all the diseased specimens, (2) isolation of the disease causing organism and culturing it, (3) inoculating the isolated organism on healthy host and duplication of natural disease symptoms, and (4) reisolation of the causal organism from experimentally inoculated host and comparing it with the initially isolated organism. It is obligatory to establish these postulates with regard to zoosporic fungal parasites also. However, it is difficult to fulfill all the above mentioned criteria for the obligate zoosporic fungi which cannot be cultured in the routine laboratory media. In such instances, a detailed and careful examination of the disease symptoms and the endobiotic fungal parasites is to be recorded. Maintaining dual culture of the healthy and infected host also helps to fulfill these postulates partially.
 
Date 2009-01-20T12:16:43Z
2009-01-20T12:16:43Z
1996
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier Advances in zoosporic fungi, ed. by: Dayal, R. 61-80p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/2163
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [1996]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher M D Publications, New Delhi, India