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904 S. Morris Street _
Oxford, Maryland 21654-9724
August 22, 2000 -
Dr. Dennis Burton
University ol Maryland
Wye Research and Education Center
_ RO. Box 169 .
Queenstown, Maryland 21658
This letter constitutes the diagnostic report for one sample of Rangia clams submitted to .
" Cooperative Oxford Laboratory for Perkrhsus marinus (Dermo) assay.
" The sample was received by the Diagnostics and Histology Laboratory on August 15, 2000. A 30-
animal sub—sampte was necropsied and innoculate into RFTM on the same day. Tissues assayed were
rectum, palp. and gill. Assays were read seven days post-inoculation. Perkfnsus marinus was detected in
1 animai. Percent prevalence was 3.33%, mean infection intensity was 0.03 on a scale of 0(negative} to 7 ·
(very heavy}, and weighted infection intensity was 1.00 on a scale of 0-T. _
_ Sincerely.
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Carol B. McCullough .
Diagnostics & I-Iistoiogy
Laboratory Manager .