11 MICROSCOPY – Gill Biopsy

   2020-04-02  Posted in Microscopy

11) MICROSCOPY – Gill Biopsy

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This is just a really good microscope.

So I collect a biopsy from the gills of a Sarassa Comet. My hand is in the way on one. The gills are pale in this box of fish, they are infested with flukes. The wholesaler complains that these flukes show resistance to medications. The flukes are body flukes, liverbearers, Gyrodactylus species. All I find in this group   for biopsy is nothing but Flukes.

Author: Dr. Erik Johnson
Dr Erik Johnson is a Marietta, Georgia Veterinarian with a practice in small animal medicine. He graduated from University of Georgia with his Doctorate in 1991. Dr Johnson is the author of several texts on Koi and Pond Fish Health and Disease as well as numerous articles on dog and cat health topics.