Dietary vitamin E and the response of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), to infection with Yersinia ruckeri |
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| Authors: | M D Furones † D J Alderman D Bucke T C Fletcher ‡§ D Knox ‡&#; A White ‡§ |
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| Institution: | Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Directorate of Fisheries Research, Fish Disease Laboratory, 14 Albany Road, Granby Industrial Estate, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 9TH, U.K.;NERC Institute of Marine Biochemistry, Aberdeen, U.K. |
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| Abstract: | Rainbow trout fed diets containing 7, 86 or 806 mg vitamin E kg−1 for 22 weeks were exposed to virulent Yersinia ruckeri by bath or injection. Mortalities were always least among those fed the highest concentration of vitamin E but serum antibody production was not affected by vitamin E levels. |
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| Keywords: | rainbow trout Yersinia ruckeri vitamin E deficiency diets |
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