Health Maintenance and Principal Microbial Diseases of Cultured Fishes 3rd edition is thoroughly revised and updated.

Features of this new edition include:

• Major revision of the fish health maintenance section
• Presents new pathogens and advances in the field
• Illustrates methods for maintaining fish health in culture systems through management of disease
• Offers sections on health maintenance, viral diseases, and bacterial diseases
• Covers a wide range of fish species

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.

Contents

Part I: Health Maintenance

1. Principles of Health Maintenance
2. Epizootiology of Fish Diseases
3. Pathology and Disease Diagnosis
4. Disease Management

Part II: Viral Diseases

5. Catfish Viruses
6. Carp and Minnow Viruses
7. Eel Viruses
8. Trout and Salmon Viruses
9. Sturgeon Viruses
10. Other Viral Diseases of Fish

Part III: Bacterial Diseases

11. Catfish Bacterial Diseases
12. Carp and Minnow Bacterial Diseases
13. Eel Bacterial Diseases
14. Salmonid Bacterial Diseases
15. Striped Bass/Hybrid Bacterial Diseases
16. Tilapia Bacterial Diseases
17. Other Bacterial Diseases

Part IV: Appendices

1. List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes
2. Table of Conversion Factors
3. List of Cell Lines Commonly Used for Diagnostics

Index

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