| Oyster culture is, at a world scale, hit by variious epizooties, which are maintly caused by protozoans of the Phylum Ascetospora. Among them, Bonamia ostreae consitutes an appreciated model in order to study, at the cell scale, host-parasite relationships, as well as the immune role of hemocytes. Indeed, this parasite, which reproduces in hemocytes of Ostrea edulis, but cannot develop in Crassostea gigas. This development of an in vitro model for hemocyte-Bonamia relationships is presented. This includes the development and implementation of various techniques : making primocultures, protocol for infection with purified parasites, histological and immunoenzymatic analyses of infection. Such model allowed to study the interaction between host and... |
