Survival of largemouth bass during the 10 days after infection with Edwardsiella piscicida

Survival of largemouth bass during the 10 days after infection with Edwardsiella piscicida.Control fish were mock injected with saline. The bacterial part of the study followed a 4-week exposure of fish to solvent control (SC), 0.87 ng EE2/L (EE2Low), or 9.08 ng EE2/L (EE2High). For mock injected fish: n = 60; 5 fish x 4 replicates per EE2 exposure group. For fish infected with E. piscicida: n = 216; 18 fish x 4 replicates per EE2 exposure group. The blue line shows that all mock injected fish survived for all estrogen exposure groups. The asterisk indicates significantly higher survival in EE2High compared to solvent control or EE2Low (p<0.02).