Lipotropes protect against pathogen-aggravated stress and mortality in low dose pesticide-exposed fish.

The decline of freshwater fish biodiversity corroborates the trends of unsustainable pesticide usage and increase of disease incidence in the last few decades. Little is known about the role of nonlethal exposure to pesticide, which is not uncommon, and concurrent infection of opportunistic pathogen...

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Main Authors: Neeraj Kumar, Subodh Gupta, Nitish Kumar Chandan, Md Aklakur, Asim Kumar Pal, Sanjay Balkrishna Jadhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3972094?pdf=render