Diseases of Bivalves

Historical and Current Perspectives

Roxanna Smolowitz

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128203439
• Subtopic: Fisheries & Aquaculture
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Diseases of Bivalves: Historical and Current Perspectives is a novel reference covering all known diseases of cultured and fished bivalve mollusks from around the world. Written by a renowned expert in the field of shellfish, the author presents a historical perspective of disease discovery, explaining when and where each disease first occurred and identified to current research findings. This reference describes the infectious agent that causes each disease and environmental conditions that promote infection symptoms and signs of the disease in the host, both as noted in individual animals and in the affected populations, and resultant morbidity and mortality of infected populations. The book offers past and current possible prevention and management methods to control disease in current and projected geographical locations. This is a complete resource for aquatic and veterinary pathologists, aquaculturists, government regulators, disease specialists and researchers, bivalve researchers, and students alike. Diseases include Metazoan Disease, Viral diseases, Fungal Disease, and more. - Presents microscopic visuals to illustrate the disease in bivalves - Includes graphs showing changes in disease prevalence and severity - Provides methods of diagnosis of infection by disease producing organisms

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contributors
• 1 Bonamia spp. infections of oysters
• 2 Xenomas
• 3 Infections of bivalves by microsporidia: The case of Steinhausia species
• 4 Fouling by Cliona (boring sponge)
• 5 Role of the environment in Vibrio-bivalve interactions: Development of the brown ring disease model in clams
• 6 Infection with Francisella halioticida in Yesso scallops Mizuhopecten (=Patinopecten) yessoensis
• 7 Perkinsosis (aka dermo) of bivalve mollusks
• 8 History and taxonomy of haplosporidians, and haplosporidiosis in bivalve mollusks
• 9 Marteilia spp. infections in bivalves
• 10 Mikrocytos spp. infection in oysters and clams
• 11 Vibriosis of bivalves
• 12 Roseovarius oyster disease, formerly known as Juvenile oyster disease
• 13 Herpesvirus infections in marine bivalves
• 14 Bivalves, intermediate hosts for trematodes
• 15 Gonadal neoplasia
• 16 Coccidia and other apicomplexans in bivalve molluscs
• 17 Shell-boring polychaete infections of bivalves
• 18 Disseminated neoplasia of bivalves
• 19 Thraustochytriidae infections of bivalves
• Index