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Infectious disease in aquaculture : prevention and control /

With an ever increasing demand for seafood that cannot be met by capture fisheries alone, growing pressure is being placed on aquaculture production. However, infectious diseases are a major constraint. Infectious disease in aquaculture: prevention and control brings together a wealth of recent rese...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Austin, B. (Brian), 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Woodhead Pub. Ltd., 2012.
Colección:Woodhead Publishing in food science, technology, and nutrition ; no. 231.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. IMMUNE RESPONSES IN FISH AND SHELLFISH AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR DISEASE CONTROL. The innate and adaptive immune system of fish
  • Crustacean immune responses and their implications for disease control
  • Immune responses in molluscs and their implications for disease control
  • Stress and resistance to infectious diseases in fish.
  • Part 2. ADVANCES IN DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS, VETERINARY DRUGS AND VACCINES. Advances in diagnostic methods for mollusc, crustacean and finfish diseases
  • Quality assurance in aquaculture disease diagnostics
  • Antibiotics in aquaculture: reducing their use and maintaining their efficacy
  • Considerations for the use of anti-parasitic drugs in aquaculture
  • Developments in vaccination against fish bacterial diseases
  • Developments in adjuvants for fish vaccines.
  • Part 3. DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIFIC PATHOGEN FREE POPULATIONS AND NOVEL APPROACHES FOR DISEASE CONTROL. Development of specific pathogen free (SPF) shrimp stocks and their application to sustainable shrimp farming
  • The role of risk analysis in the development of biosecurity programmes for the maintenance of specific pathogen free populations
  • Developments in genomics relevant to disease control in aquaculture
  • Bacteria and bacteriophages as biological agents for disease control in aquaculture
  • Managing the microbiota in aquaculture systems for disease prevention and control
  • Natural antimicrobial compounds for use in aquaculture
  • The potential for antimicrobial peptides to improve fish health in aquaculture
  • Advances in non-chemical methods for parasite prevention and control in fish.