Pathogen List

This is a draft list of all pathogens in the database, excluding some unpublished Myxozoans.

Acanthocephalans (thorny-headed worms)

  Echinorhynchus gadi
  Echinorhynchus lageniformis
  Neoechinorhynchus sp.
  Rhadinorhynchus sp.
  Rotifers

Apicomplexans (parasitic protists)

  Coccidia (spore-forming intestinal micro-parasites)
      Eimeria
      Goussia carpelli

Bacteria

  Aeromonas caviae
  Aeromonas hydrophila
  Aeromonas salmonicida
  Aeromonas sobria
  Aeromonas veronii
  Citrobacter freundii
  Edwardsiella ictaluri
  Edwardsiella piscicida
  Edwardsiella tarda
  Enterobacter cloaceae
  Enterobacter sp.
  Flavobacterium branchiophilum (bacterial gill disease)
  Flavobacterium columnare (columnaris)
  Flavobacterium psychrophilum (bacterial cold water disease)
  Klebsiella sp.
  Mycobacterium marinum
  Myxobacteria
  Neorickettsia helminthoeca
  Neorickettsia helmithoeca
  Plesiomonas shigelloides
  Proteus sp.
  Pseudomonas fluorescens
  Pseudomonas sp.
  Renibacterium salmoninarum (bacterial kidney disease - BKD)
  Strawberry disease
  Vibrio
  Yersinia ruckeri (enteric redmouth disease)

Cestodes (tapeworms)

  Bothriocephalus acheilognathi
  Bothriocephalus sp.
  Corallobothrium sp.
  Diphyllobothrium (fish tapeworm)
  Lingula intestinalis
  Phyllobothrium
  Proteocephalus
  Schistocephalus solidus

Copepods

  Achtheres sp.
  Argulus
  Ergasilus sp.
  Lepeophtheirus salmonis
  Lernaea (anchor worm)
  Salmincola

Fungi and fungus-like pathogens

  Branchiomyces sp.
  Dermocystidium
  Ichthyophonus
  Microsporidia
      Glugea
      Loma
      Pleistophora
  Saprolegnia parasitica
  Saprolegnia sp.

Monogeneans (flukes)

  Cleidodiscus sp.
  Dactylogyrus
  Gyrodactylus

Myxozoans

  Ceratomyxa sp.
  Ceratonova shasta
  Chloromyxum sp.
  Henneguya ictaluri
  Henneguya salminicola
  Henneguya sp.
  Kudoa sp.
  Myxobilatus gasterostei
  Myxobolus cerebralis
  Myxobolus insidiosus
  Myxobolus kisutchi
  Myxobolus sp.
  Myxobolus squamalis
  Parvicapsula minibicornis
  Proliferative kidney disease (PKD)
  Sphaerospora elegans
  Unicauda sp.

Nematodes (round worms)

  Anisakis
  Camallanus
  Capillaria
  Contracaecum
  Cystidicola
  Eustrongylides
  Hysterothylacium
  Philometroides
  Philonema
  Rhabdochona sp.
  Salvelinema walkeri
  Spinitectus
  Truttaedacnitis

non-pathogen injury or other sign

  Tumor-like lumps

none

Other pathogens

  Glochidia (parasitic mollusc larvae)
  Leeches (Hirudineans)
  Polypodium hydriforme

Protists (single-celled organisms, which are mostly animals - not bacteria)

  Amoeba (single-celled, parasitic and free-living animals)
  Cilliates
      Ambiphrya
      Apiosoma
      Chilodonella
      Epistylis
      Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ich)
      Trichodina
      Trichodinella
      Trichophrya
  Flagellates
      Cryptobia salmositica
      Hemoflagellate
      Hexamita
      Ichthyobodo
      Trypanosomes
      Velvet Disease
  Heteropolaria sp.

Trematodes (flukes & grubs)

  Apophallus brevis
  Bolbophorus damnificus
  Clinostomum (Yellow Grub)
  Crepidostomum
  Deropegus sp.
  Diplostomum spathaceum
  Echinochasmus
  Nanophyetus
  Neascus
  Nitzschia sturionis
  Ornithodiplostomum sp.
  Parahemiurus merus
  Plagioporus sp.
  Posthodiplostomum (White Grub)
  Sanguinicola

Viruses

  Baculoviral midgut gland necrosis virus
  Channel Catfish Virus
  EIBS
  Epizootic hematopoietic necrosis virus
  Hepatopancreatic parvovirus
  Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHN)
  Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHHNV)
  Infectious myonecrosis virus (IMNV)
  Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPN)
  Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus (ISA)
  Koi Herpesvirus (KHV)
  Laem-Singh virus
  Largemouth Bass Virus (LMBV)
  Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus
  Megalocytivirus
  Monodon baculovirus
  Mourilyan virus
  Oncorhynchus masou virus
  Red sea bream iridovirus
  Salmon alphavirus (SAV)
  Salmon pancreatic disease virus
  Sleeping disease virus
  Spring Viraemia of Carp Virus (SVC)
  Taura syndrome virus
  Tilapia lake virus (TiLV)
  Viral erythrocytic necrosis
  Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia virus (VHS)
  Viral nervous necrosis
  White spot syndrome virus (WSSV)
  White Sturgeon Herpesvirus 2
  White Sturgeon Iridovirus
  Yellow head virus (YHV)
  Yellowtail ascites virus