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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Philadelphia :
Woodhead Pub. Ltd.,
2012.
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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.