Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos, Centro Nacional Patagónico - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Puerto Madryn, Argentina.
J Fish Biol. 2021 Oct;99(4):1519-1523. doi: 10.1111/jfb.14826. Epub 2021 Jul 11.
Epitheliocystis is a fish disease with recorded in increasing numbers globally. Here we show that (a) pollution-exposed wild marine fishes have higher infection prevalence than nonexposed individuals from reference sites, suggesting that anthropogenic pollution predisposes individuals to this disease in natural systems, (b) the effect of pollution on infection status did not vary significantly between two sympatric fish species, and (c) infected and noninfected individuals from both species did not differ significantly in selected immune and general-health parameters, a result that deserves further study with increased sample sizes.
类结节病是一种鱼类疾病，在全球范围内的记录呈上升趋势。在这里，我们表明：(a) 暴露于污染环境中的野生海洋鱼类的感染流行率高于来自参照点的未暴露个体，这表明人为污染使自然系统中的个体易患这种疾病；(b) 污染对感染状况的影响在两种共生鱼类之间没有显著差异；(c) 来自两个物种的受感染和未受感染个体在选定的免疫和一般健康参数方面没有显著差异，这一结果值得进一步研究，以增加样本量。
