Health Maintenance and Principal Microbial Diseases of Cultured Fishes, 3rd Edition
By John A. Plumb and Larry A. Hanson
Health Maintenance and Principal Microbial Diseases of Cultured Fishes, 3rd Edition PDF is a thoroughly revised and updated version of the classic text. Building on the wealth of information presented in the previous edition, this new edition offers a major revision of the valuable health maintenance section, with new pathogens added throughout the book. Health Maintenance and Principal Microbial Diseases of Cultured Fishes, Third Edition focuses on maintaining fish health, illustrating how management can reduce the effects of disease.
The text is divided into sections on health maintenance, viral diseases, and bacterial diseases, and covers a wide variety of commercially important species, including catfish, salmon, trout, sturgeon, and tilapia. This book is a valuable resource for professionals and students in the areas of aquaculture, aquatic health maintenance, pathobiology, and aquatic farm management.
Major revision of the valuable fish health maintenance section
Presents new pathogens and advances in the field
Illustrates methods for maintaining fish health through management of disease
Offers sections on health maintenance, viral diseases, and bacterial diseases
Covers a wide variety of fish species
Table of Contents
About the Authors vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Part I: Health Maintenance
1 Principles of Health Maintenance 3
2 Epizootiology of Fish Diseases 31
3 Pathology and Disease Diagnosis 39
4 Disease Management 57
Part II: Viral Diseases
5 Catfish Viruses 95
6 Carp and Minnow Viruses 109
7 Eel Viruses 135
8 Trout and Salmon Viruses 147
9 Sturgeon Viruses 219
10 Other Viral Diseases of Fish 227
Part III: Bacterial Diseases
11 Catfish Bacterial Diseases 275
12 Carp and Minnow Bacterial Diseases 315
13 Eel Bacterial Diseases 327
14 Salmonid Bacterial Diseases 345
15 Striped Bass Bacterial Diseases 419
16 Tilapia Bacterial Diseases 445
17 Other Bacterial Diseases 465
Part IV: Appendices
Appendix I. List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes 473
Appendix II. Table of Conversion Factors 477
Appendix III. List of Cell Lines Commonly Used for Diagnostics 479
