| daggerblade grass shrimp (palaemonetes pugio): a reservoir host for yellow-head virus (yhv). | yellow-head virus (yhv) is a major pathogen in penaeid shrimps. we surveyed 13 crustacean species in eight families from two orders that are commonly found in the mississippi coastal area and freshwater environments as potential reservoir or carrier hosts of yhv. using semi-nested polymerase chain reaction (pcr) on relatively small sample sizes, we did not detect any natural infection. however, when the daggerblade grass shrimp, palaemonetes pugio, and the blue crab, callinectes sapidus, were ex ... | 2009 | 19409902 |
| fish tissue quality in the lower mississippi river and health risks from fish consumption. | between 1990 and 1994, samples of three shellfish species (i.e. blue crab, callinectes sapidus;crayfish, procambarus acutis; and river shrimp, macrobrachium ohionii) and 16 fish species and were collected at six sites along the lower mississippi river by the louisiana department of environmental quality, office of water resources in coordination with the us environmental protection agency. the fish species included: bigmouth buffalo (ictiobus cyanellus); blue catfish (ictalurus furcatus); carp ( ... | 2003 | 12526903 |
| bacteriological survey of the blue crab industry. | during sanitation inspections of 46 crabmeat processing plants on the atlantic and gulf coasts, 487 samples of whole crabs immediately after cooking, cooked crabs after cooling, backed or washed (or both) crab bodies and whole crab claws, as well as 1,506 retail units of finished product were collected and analyzed bacteriologically. the 1,506 retail units (1-lb [373.24-g] cans) included 518 cans of regular (special) meat, 487 cans of claw meat, and 501 cans of lump meat. statistical analyses sh ... | 1972 | 4568256 |