Description
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 research on this problem and its effective management. The innate and adaptive immune responses seen in fish and shellfish together with the implications of these responses for disease control are presented. The specific immune response of molluscs and crustaceans is considered in depth, along with the role of stress in resistance to infection. Advances in disease diagnostics, veterinary drugs and vaccines are discussed, with quality assurance, the use and effects of antibiotics and anti-parasitic drugs in aquaculture, and developments in vaccination against fish are explored. The ebook also focuses on the development of specific pathogen-free populations and novel approaches for disease control. Specific pathogen free shrimp stocks, developments in genomics and the use of bacteria and bacteriophages as biological agents for disease control are explored, before the management and use of natural antimicrobial compounds. 549 p.
Series: Whodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
- Brian Austin, Editor. Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling (UK).
- Publication date (reprint original edition 2012 to digital version): 2019-04 – Whodhead Publishing.
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