| denman island disease in washington state, usa: distribution and prevalence in pacific and olympia oysters. | we sampled over 2400 wild, feral, and cultured pacific oysters crassostrea gigas and olympia oysters ostrea lurida in washington state, usa, from 2002 to 2006 to estimate the prevalence of infection with mikrocytos mackini, the causative agent of denman island disease. both histology and qualitative pcr methods were used. estimates of true prevalence of m. mackini infection in c. gigas, after accounting for imperfect test sensitivity, ranged from mean values of 0 to 10.0% by histology and 0 to 8 ... | 2015 | 25993889 |