Main description:

Salmonids have widespread economic and environmental importance. Correct identification and understanding of their diseases are therefore vital if valuable stocks are to be maintained. This volume provides a practical guide and an aid to disease recognition. This is an updated and extended version of the first publication in 1996 and contains around 400 high quality colour photomicrographs.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Functional Anatomy

Chapter 3. Post-mortem examination and the recognition of tissue abnormalities

Chapter 4. Pathology and disease diagnosis

Chapter 5. Viral diseases

Chapter 6. Bacterial diseases

Chapter 7. Fungal and related oomycete infection

Chapter 8. Protist

Chapter 9. Metazoa

Chapter 10. Production diseases and other disorders

Chapter 11. Idiopathic diseases

Chapter 12. Neoplasia