This book chapter describes various aspects of scuticociliatosis: diagnosis, epidemiology, transmission, physiopathology, reservoir hosts, and control and prevention.

This book chapter describes various aspects of myxoboliosis caused by Myxobolus cerebralis: diagnosis, physiopathology, reservoir hosts, geographical distribution, epidemiology, and control and prevention methods.

This book chapter describes the various aspects of anisakiosis caused by Anisakis simplex: diagnosis, epidemiology, physiopathology, survival in reservoir hosts, and control and prevention methods.

Early ultrastructural observations of Cryptosporidium parvum-infected cells consistently described the accumulation of microfilaments beneath the dense band, suggesting the initiation of actin reorganization within the host cell. Immunolocalization and forced expression of β-actin green fluorescent ...

This chapter covers the life cycle of Sanguinicola inermis and its impact on fish production. Focus is also given on the diagnosis and clinical signs, histopathology, pathophysiology, host immune response and disease control strategies.

The morphology, life cycle, transmission, host species and geographical distribution of Bothriocephalus acheilognathi are presented. The importance of the disease, diagnosis, clinical signs, macroscopic and microscopic lesions (pathological changes), disease mechanism and control and prevention are ...

This article describes the major routes by which water becomes contaminated with enteric pathogens and reviews human pathophysiology, animal reservoirs, presence and survival in the environment, and survival in water of major enteric pathogens (Campylobacter, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia...