Khawia japonensis (Cestoda), the Asian parasite of common carp, continues to spread in Central European countries: distribution, infection indices and histopathology

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.reabic.net/journals/bir/2021/4/BIR_2021_Barcak_etal.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.reabic.net/journals/bir/2021/4/BIR_2021_Barcak_etal.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3391/bir.2021.10.4.18" target="_blank" >10.3391/bir.2021.10.4.18</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Khawia japonensis (Cestoda), the Asian parasite of common carp, continues to spread in Central European countries: distribution, infection indices and histopathology

Original language description

The Asian tapeworm Khawia japonensis, a specific parasite of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio), has been found for the first time in Europe, in Italy (2010), with further records also in Slovakia (2014) and the Czech Republic (2016). In the present paper, new data on the distribution of the non-indigenous K. japonensis is presented in different countries in Central Europe (Hungary, Poland and Slovakia), including its first record in Hungary and Poland, and in the wild fish in the Laborec River (Tisa River basin) and drainage canal of the Zemplinska sirava water reservoir, in south-eastern Slovakia. The highest prevalence (47%) was recorded in a carp breeding facility in eastern Slovakia, and the highest intensity of infection (8 parasites per fish) occurs in free-living fish from the Laborec River located in the same region. The morphology of recently found K. japonensis specimens is compared with that of population from common carp in Italy and from the same fish host in Asia and North America. The first insight on pathology, including histological examination, is provided, and pathological changes induced by the scolex of K. japonensis penetrated into the intestinal villi are also described. The recent spreading of this parasite in several major European river basins (Danube, Elbe, and Vistula) indicates its high ability to establish in new regions and represents another example of anthropogenic introduction of fish pathogens.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40301 - Veterinary science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

BioInvasions Records

ISSN

2242-1300

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

FI - FINLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

934-947

UT code for WoS article

000719590000018

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85121233142