Samah Abou Asa1, Omnia Tag2 and Walid Elmonir2*
... (OR= 3.1, P= 0.01). The heterophyids EMC were molecularly confirmed in 32% (16/50) and 18% (9/50) of mullet and tilapia fish samples, respectively. The EMC infection in fish was associated with muscle degeneration, fragmentation, and hyalinization, and mononuclear cell infiltrations, were morphological characteristics of EMC-infected muscles. In mullet fish the lesions were more severe and the EMC were embedded in intermuscular fat. These pathological lesions...
