Aquaculture Mycology and Bacteriology

Aquaculture Mycology and Bacteriology is a practical reference to address the steadily increasing importance of infectious diseases of aquatic animals. With the burgeoning expansion of the animal aquaculture industry to new geographic areas, new microbial and parasitic species with pathogenic potential will continue to emerge. This necessitates rapid identification of the new pathogens to enable their control. Each pathogenic bacterial or fungal species is accompanied by the full description of both taxonomic and clinical information for the three major aquatic food animals (fish, crustaceans and mollusks).

Aquaculture Mycology and Bacteriology takes a comprehensive approach to facilitate research to develop vaccines or other similar pathogen mitigation measures, and is useful to bacteriologists, mycologists, aquaculturists, clinical practitioners in aquatic animal health and all those in industry, government or academia who are interested in aquaculture, fisheries and comparative biology.

Part I: General Aspects
1. Introduction to the microbiologists’ highest taxa: The three domains of life
2. Prevention and control of aquatic animal bacterial pathogens

Part II: Gram-negative Pathogenic Bacteria of Farmed Aquatic Animals
3. Aeromonadaceae (fish, crustaceans and molluscs)
4. Enterobacteriaceae Fish Pathogens
5. Francisellaceae
6. Pseudomonadaceae (Fish, Crustaceans and Molluscs)

Part III: Gram-positive Pathogenic Bacteria Farmed Aquatic Animals
7. Streptococcaceae

Part IV: Pathogenic Fungi of Fish, Crustaceans, and Molluscs
8. Class Dothideomycetes
9. Class Eurotiomycetes
10. Class Sordariomycetes