• 한국어병학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.97-105
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• 2017

Parasitic leeches could directly (through causing poor growth, anemia and wound in the fish) and indirectly (by predisposition of the fish to secondary bacterial and fungal infections) affects their hosts. In the present study, fishes that were attacked by leeches in natural and experimental environment were studied. Pathologic samples were obtained from damages at the site of leech bite, as well as kidney and liver of the fish. Histopathological examination revealed numerous lesions at the site of leech bite including tissue demolition, detachment at the site of leech bite in the epidermis of epithelial tissue in the skin, destructed nucleus in epithelial cells of the skin plus necrosis in the damaged skin and weak inflammatory penetration to acute necrotic damages along with piercing dermis layer. Pathologic lesions in the kidney included some changes such as proliferation by increasing glomerular cells and membrane cells in capillary vein of the kidney, blood cell necrosis in kidney with infiltration of white blood cells mainly mononuclear and less polymorphonuclear which are the symptoms of anemia due to blood feeding and sucking by leeches. There was also a chronic kidney infection probably originated from another part of body such as skin. Moreover, leeches caused hemorrhagic anemia due to blood consumption of the hosts, which led to observation of immature red blood cells. Also results showed that diseases induced by leeched in fish could be acute or chronic, which depends on size of fish, species of leech and severity of infection.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.399-407
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• 2010

10 개체의 붕어, Carassius auratus 아가미뚜껑의 한쪽면에 1-4개체의 거머리, Limnotrachelobdella sinensis들이 기생하고 있었다. 거머리들의 평균 길이는 약 41.0 mm 정도였고, 폭은 11 mm였다. 이들의몸체는 anterior sucker, neck, trunk, posterior sucker로 구성되어 있었고 각각의 평균 길이는 2.3 mm, 7.2 mm, 23.3 mm, 8.7 mm였다. 몸통의 양 옆에는 11쌍의 lateral vesicle이 존재하였다. Anterior sucker를 SEM으로 관찰한 결과 이들은 반구모양으로 중앙에는 proboscis가 나오는 입이 존재하고 있었다. Proboscis는 식도와 바로 연결되어 있었다. 거머리에 의해서 흡혈되어진 붕어의 아가미를 광학현미경으로 관찰하였을 때 새판융합, 새엽 및 새판 상피세포 과증식, 점액세포 증가 및 울혈이 관찰되었다. 하지만 몇몇 개체들에서 나타나는 새엽 상피세포의 괴사 및 수종변성과 식세포의 침투 등은 거머리의 흡혈 활동 이후 세균 혹은 바이러스에 의한 2차 감염이 원인인 것으로 생각되어진다.