Fish diseases and disorders. Volume 1, Protozoan and metazoan infections /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Edition: Second edition.
• Subjects: Fishes > Diseases.; Fishes > Infections.; Animal Immunology, (New March 2000); Protozoan, Helminth, Mollusc and Arthropod Parasites of Animals, (New March 2000); Aquaculture (Animals); Aquatic Biology and Ecology.; Acanthocephala.; Amoeba.; Annelida.; Apicomplexa.; Arthropods.; Cestoda.; Ciliophora.; Cryptocaryon irritans.; Digenea.; Dinoflagellida.; Fishes.; Ichthyophthirius multifiliis.; Kinetoplastida.; Microspora.; Monogenea.; Myxozoa.; Nematoda.; Platyhelminthes.; Protozoa.; Trichodinidae.; Animal parasitic nematodes.; Metazoa.; Nematode parasites of animals.; Nemtodes.; Nematodes of animals.; Parasitic worms.; Protozoal diseases.; Zoonotic infections.; Electronic books.
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This book is the second edition of the first of three proposed volumes on diseases and disorders in freshwater and marine fishes (fin and shellfish). Since the publication of the first edition, a tremendous volume of research has been conducted on parasites, especially those that cause morbidity and...

Table of Contents:

• Phylum Amoebozoa / Dina Zilberg, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and Barry L. Munday, University of Tasmania, Australia
• Phylum Dinoflagellata / Edward J. Noga and Michael G. Levy, North Carolina State University, USA
• Diplomonadida (Phylum Parabasalia) and Kinetoplastea (Phylum Euglenozoa) / Patrick T.K. Woo, University of Guelph, Canada
• Ichthyophthirius multifiliis and Cryptocaryon irritans (Phylum Ciliophora) / Harry W. Dickerson, University of Georgia, USA
• Trichodinidae and Other Ciliophorans (Phylum Ciliophora) / Linda Basson and Jo Van As, University of the Free State, South Africa
• Phylum Apicomplexa / Kálmán Molnár, Veterinary Medical Research Institute, Hungary
• Phylum Microspora / Iva Dyková, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Republic
• Phylum Myxozoa / Stephen W. Feist and Matt Longshaw, CEFAS Weymouth Laboratory, UK
• Monogenea (Phylum Platyhelminthes) / Kurt Buchmann and José Bresciani, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark
• Digenea (Phylum Platyhelminthes) / Ilan Paperna and Ronald Dzikowski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Cestoidea (Phylum Platyhelminthes) / Terry A. Dick, Chandra Chambers and Ike Isinguzo, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Phylum Nematoda / Kálmán Molnár, Veterinary Medical Research Institute, Hungary, Kurt Buchmann, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark and Csaba Székely, Veterinary Medical Research Institute, Hungary
• Phylum Acanthocephala / Brent B. Nickol, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
• Phylum Arthropoda / Robert J.G. Lester and Craig J. Hayward, University of Queensland, Australia
• Phylum Annelida: Hirudinea as Vectors and Disease Agents / Eugene M. Burreson, College of William and Mary, USA
• Fish-borne Parasitic Zoonoses / Ronald C. Ko, University of Hong Kong, China
• Parasitic Diseases of Shellfish / Susan M. Bower, Pacific Biological Station, Canada
• The Immune System of Fish / Willem B. Van Muiswinkel and Brenda Vervoorn-Van Der Wal, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
• Immunocompetent Cells and Their Mediators in Fin Fish / Bernadette F. Ardelli, McGill University, Canada, and Patrick T.K. Woo, University of Guelph, Canada
• Molecular Approaches and Techniques / Ted G. Clark, Cornell University, USA.