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DAO 32:145-149 (1998)
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Abstract
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Prevalence of Mytilicola intestinalis (Copepoda: Mytilicolidae) and Urastoma cyprinae (Turbellaria: Hypotrichinidae) in marketable mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis in Italy
G. Canestri Trotti1,*, E. M. Baccarani1, S. Giannetto2, A. Giuffrida3, F. Paesanti4
1Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Università di Torino, Via Accademia Albertina, 17, I-10123 Torino, Italy
2Cattedra di Parassitologia Veterinaria, Università di Messina, Via S. Cecilia, 30, I-98123 Messina,
Italy
3Istituto di Ispezione degli alimenti di origine animale, Università di Messina, Via S. Cecilia, 30, I-98123 Messina,Italy
4Goro Acquicoltura s.r.l., P.le Leo Scarpa, 45, I-44020 Goro (Ferrara), Italy
*E-mail: canestri@dm.unito.it
ABSTRACT: Marketable mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis traded with commercial certification from production sites in Italy and abroad (France, Spain) were examined for the presence of Mytilicola intestinalis (Copepoda: Mytilicolidae) and
Urastoma cyprinae (Turbellaria: Hypotrichinidae) from October 1994 to February 1996. The prevalence of M. intestinalis was 4.1% and 4.7% respectively in mussels from Lerici (La Spezia) and S. Pietro in Volta (Venice), whereas it rose
to 57.9% in the samples from Spain. M. intestinalis was absent in mussels from Chioggia (Venice), Ganzirri (Messina), Taranto, Trieste and France. The prevalence of U. cyprinae varied considerably, ranging from 0.3% in mussels from
Trani (Bari) to 33.2% and 86.3% respectively in those from Chioggia and Trieste. It was 85.7% in samples from France and 63.7% in those from Spain.
KEY WORDS: Mytilus galloprovincialis · Mytilicola intestinalis · Urastoma cyprinae · Parasitology · Epidemiology
Published in DAO Vol.
32, No. 2
(1998) on March 5
ISSN: 0177-5103.
Copyright © Inter-Research, Oldendorf/Luhe, 1998
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