Recherche sur l'agent de la maladie de la glande digestive de Ostrea edulis Linné

Numerous diseases have been described in Ostrea and Crassostrea oysters and especially in cultivated species of commercial interest. The lack of growth, but more often mortalities, are in most cases the most obvious symptoms of this supposed sickness. The consequences of these epizooties can be so bad that they can result in the disappearance of an entire oyster population from a determined area as for Ostrea edulis L. in 1920-1921 (Dollfus, 1922) on some coasts of Europe and for Crassostrea angulata LMK in 1970-1971 on the French Atlantic coast and especially in the Marennes-Oléron and Arcachon basins. These cases can be considered as extreme cases as most of the time, oysters are only subjected to a number of episodic affections, affecting the farms only partially.