Showing papers in "Annual Review of Fish Diseases in 1993"

TL;DR: Increase in worldwide aquaculture production will result in a demand for knowledge about the pathogenesis of bacterial pathogens in warmwater fish, because of its importance in making health management decisions, in deciding on treatment regimens, and in the development of vaccines.

TL;DR: Both fumagillin DCH, an antibiotic effective against certain microsporidia and myxosporidia, and the arylmethane dye malachite green, have shown some promise as treatments for PKD.

TL;DR: Though a bacterin against Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a pathogen affecting species of fish reared in warmwater has been successfully tested, the serologic heterogeneity of these groups of organisms make it unlikely that widely utilizable vaccines will be available in the near future.

TL;DR: It can be concluded that a number of heavy metal pollutants shown to be immunotoxic in mammalian systems, including cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, manganese, nickel, and zic, also alter immunoregulatory functions in a variety of fish species, which may ultimately lead to increased host susceptibility to infectious and malignant diseases in fish inhabiting heavy metal-contaminated waters.

TL;DR: A picture is constructed of the possible ways in which pathogen and host interact, in particular by high-lighting the areas where understanding is poor and indicating how recent advances in methodology offer the prospect of improvement.

TL;DR: A comprehensive survey of the many published studies on Y. ruckeri and ERM, in which the work carried out by various authors is brought together, and it is suggested that the development of agreed standard methodologies are needed to make further progress.

TL;DR: With the development of intensive fish culture practices in Japan, bacterial and viral diseases have spread and caused serious problems for culturists.

TL;DR: A review of available information on vaccines for infectious pancreatic necrosis virus, viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus, infectious hematopoietic necrot virus, spring viremia of carp virus, and channel catfish virus is presented.

TL;DR: The importance of cell surface associated properties and extracellular products (ECP) as virulence factors varies among the fish pathogens considered in this review, particularly among members of the genus Vibrio, V. salmonicida, and V. ordalii.

TL;DR: In Cytophaga psychrophila there appears to be a common species-specific antigen, and somatic antigen may be used to distinguish pathogenic from nonpathogenic strains, and its pathogenicity is still poorly understood.

TL;DR: The burgeoning number of fish viruses is a reflection of the increased interest in fish diseases, particularly those occurring in aquaculture facilities, and the number will surely grow as fish farming intensifies on a global scale.

TL;DR: There is some evidence that isolates taken from fish lesions are more infective for live fish and are more resistant to host defenses, compared to environmental isolates, but the significance of these characteristics to pathogenicity is uncertain.

TL;DR: Review of the scientific literature reveals more than ten infectious diseases of this species including those with viral, bacterial, protozoan, and metazoan etiologies including diseases of larval, juvenile, and adult oysters.

TL;DR: A brief overview of MAb production and a review of some current applications of MAbs in the identification and characterization of viruses of fish are presented.

TL;DR: Thirteen retroviruses are currently known to be associated with proliferative conditions in fish and, with the exception of five, transmission of the tumors under experimental conditions has not been demonstrated.

TL;DR: The social confrontation paradigm provides an ideal model for the elucidation of the phylogeny of the HPA-CMI interactive system to a specific stressful stimulus and helps to explain physiological and pathological mechanisms in fish.