Shrimp diseases - Fungal diseases
Several fungi are known to cause diseases in shrimps and may cause mortality ranges from 20 to 100 per cent. However three among them are more dangerous to the larval stages and another to the juvenile stage. The common disease causing fungi are Lagenidium, Siropodium, Haliphthoros and Fusarium. Environmental factors such as rainy season, humid condition, low salinity etc. are found to be increasing the fungal growth.
In the case of larval infection it starts with egg stage. The fungus attaches itself to the egg and at hatching it gets stuck on the hatchling and as the shrimp grows up it ramifies through the body wall of the larva until the entire body of the larva becomes a bundle of mycelia of the fungus.
Shrimp are mostly affected by the Lagenidium and Fusarium sp. By filtering the water thoroughly, treating the water chemically or irradiation the fungus infection can be prevented. Growth of fungus Fusarium is identified by the presence of canoe-shaped macroconidia and also due to the presence of cotton wool like growth.
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