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

This chapter describes the epidemiology, prevalence, distribution, phylogenetics, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention and control rhabdoviral haemorrhagic septicaemia in domestic and wild fishes.

Spring viraemia of carp (SVC) is often a fatal haemorrhagic disease of common carp, Cyprinus carpio, and other fishes. It is caused by the Spring viraemia of carp virus (SVCV), a rhabdovirus of the type species, Carp sprivivirus, in the genus Sprivivirus. The host range; geographic range; mode of...

This chapter describes the epidemiology, prevalence, distribution, transmission, physiopathology, clinical signs, diagnosis, prevention, control strategies, legislative aspects and economic impact of Yersinia ruckeri infection in salmonids.

This chapter describes the epidemiology, prevalence, distribution, transmission, physiopathology, clinical signs, diagnosis, prevention, control strategies, legislative aspects and economic impact of Renibacterium salmoninarum in salmonids.

This chapter describes the epidemiology, prevalence, distribution, transmission, physiopathology, clinical signs, diagnosis, prevention, control strategies, legislative aspects and economic impact Piscirickettsia salmonis in salmonids and other fishes.

Red sea bream iridoviral disease (RSIVD) was first detected causing mass mortality among cultured red sea bream (Pagrus major) in the summer of 1990 in Japan. These viruses are genetically classified into three groups according to the nucleotide sequence of the major capsid protein gene. An...

Viral encephalopathy and retinopathy (VER), also known as viral nervous necrosis (VNN) is a severe neuropathological disease caused by RNA viruses of the genus Betanodavirus (Family: Nodaviridae). This article discusses the infectious agents; geographical distribution, host range and transmission...

Koi herpesvirus disease (KHVD) is a herpesvirus infection that induces a lethal acute viraemia that is highly contagious in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) and varieties of C. carpio such as koi carp and ghost carp. The causative agent is classified as Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 and is transmitted...

This article discusses the description of Largemouth bass viral disease (LMBV); mode of transmission; geographical distribution; impacts of LMBV on fish populations; diagnosis; pathology; pathophysiology; and protective and control strategies against LMBV.