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Salmon
(redirected from salmon poisoning, salmon disease)

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Salmon
Relating to mucocutaneous lesions with a ‘salmon’ colour

salmon
farmed finfish; many species in the genera Salmo and Oncorhyncus.

salmon louse
Lepeophtherius salmonis.
salmon poisoning, salmon disease
a disease of dogs and other canids which eat salmon from streams in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, and caused by neorickettsia helminthoeca. The infection is transmitted by the fluke, Nanophyetus salmincola, parasitic in the salmon. The disease in dogs is characterized by fever, ocular discharge and edema of the eyelids, followed by vomiting, then diarrhea and later severe dysentery and death in untreated cases. See also elokomin fluke fever.


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