ATCC? Number:50329?
Organism: Spironucleus barkhanus Sterud et al.
Isolation: blood of seawater pen-reared chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Sechelt area, British Columbia, Canada, 1992
Depositors: ML Kent 
Biosafety Level:1
Shipped: frozen 
Growth Conditions: Duration: axenic; anaerobic; cultivated in vivo in chinook salmon
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Comments: Systemic hexamitid infection in chinook salmon  [23928] Cultivated in vivo in chinook salmon, maintained at water temperatures no higher than 18C. Upon arrival thaw the ampule and aseptically inoculate the entire contents of the vial into a single fingerling salmon.
References:  23928: Kent ML, et al. Systemic hexamitid (Protozoa:Diplomonadida) infection in seawater pen-reared chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawyscha.  Dis. Aquat. Org. 14: 81-87, 1992.