Woo (integrative biology, U. of Guelph, Canada) and Buchmann (aquatic pathobiology, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark) compile 22 chapters that each examine a fish parasite, for fish health practitioners, researchers, and students of parasitology and fish veterinary medicine. Biologists, zoologists, marine scientists, pathologists, fish health specialists, and other scientists from around the world cover protozoan and metazoan parasites that cause disease or mortality in economically important fish and discuss their clinical signs, diagnosis, external/internal lesions, pathophysiology, and protective and control strategies. They focus on specific pathogens with one of the following characteristics: they have not been discussed in the previous volume Fish Diseases and Disorders, Vol. 1: Protozoan and Metazoan Infections, are relatively well-studied and may serve as models for studies of other parasites, cause considerable financial problems to the aquaculture industry, have been accidentally introduced to new geographical regions through the transportation of infected fish, are disease agents to specific groups of fish, are not host-specific and have worldwide distributions, and are facultative parasites which are emerging as important pathogens. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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3 Cryptobia (Trypanoplasma) salmositica |
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4 Ichthyophthirius multifiliis |
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5 Miamiensis avidus and Related Species |
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6 Perkinsus marinus and Haplosporidium nelsoni |
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7 Loma salmonae and Related Species |
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8 Myxobolus cerebralis and Ceratomyxa shasta |
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11 Gyrodactylus salaris and Gyrodactylus derjavinoides |
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12 Pseudodactylogyrus anguillae and Pseudodactylogyrus bini |
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13 Benedenia seriolae and Neobenedenia Species |
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14 Heterobothrium okamotoi and Neoheterobothrium hirame |
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15 Diplostomum spathaceum and Related Species |
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16 Sanguinicola inermis and Related Species |
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17 Bothriocephalus acheilognathi |
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19 Anguillicoloides crassus |
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21 Lernaea cyprinacea and Related Species |
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22 Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Caligus rogercresseyi |
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Patrick T K Woo (ptkw) is University Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph, and has been a faculty member since 1974. His research program focused on parasitic flagellates which included those of medical and economic importance. The program had continuous NSERC support for over 40 years, until he closed his laboratory at U of G so he could, with his co-editors, focus on formulating and editing an interdisciplinary book series on 'climate change and fish health'. Patrick's research and travels, sponsored by other agencies (e.g. FAO, United Nations; NUS, Singapore; CNPq, Brazil; MEC, Spain; NEC, Cdn.; CIDA, Cdn.; IDRC, Cdn) allowed him to work with colleagues in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas (e.g. 'determine the toxicity of cadmium on tilapia and its effects on immune response' in Singapore; 'develop and evaluate diagnostic techniques for human trypanosomiasis' in E & W Africa; 'adapt an in vitro method to study fish innate immunity' in Spain). In addition to publishing papers and review articles in journals and books, Patrick edited a special journal issue and 14 academic books on fish health. He also founded 'The Roy C Anderson Memorial Lecture in Parasitology'; eminent scientists including a Nobel Laureate had accepted his invitations and presented lectures at the University of Guelph. He has also consulted to industry, universities and government agencies. For further details please see: https://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/woo Professor, M.Sc., Ph.D., D.V.Sc. Leader of the Research School and network of researchers SCOFDA (2001-2012) Leader of the Research Network Fishnet (www.fishnet.dk) (May 2003-January 2004) Leader of the Danish Fish Immunology Research Centre and Network DAFINET (www.dafinet.dk) from January 2009-2013 Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen Research topics: Fish parasitology, Fish Pathology, Fish vaccinology, Fish Immunology 1984-1986 Technical University of Denmark, Technological Laboratory 1986-2007 Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark 2007-2012 University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Denmark 2012-2018 University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Denmark
Kurt Buchmann has a formal education in teaching from 1984. Teaching and/or responsible for 18 university M.Sc. and 31 Ph.D. courses for veterinarians, biologists and animal science students.
Publications: More than 240 scientific articles in international and peer-reviewed scientific journals. Five books and six chapters in books. More than 550 popular scientific articles. Several research reports and a D.V. Sc. dissertation and a Ph.D. thesis. H-index: 37 (More than 37 papers with more than 37 citations recorded in Science citation index).
International collaborators: Scientific network with more than 80 international research groups. Referee and review tasks: for 14 international research councils, referee-work for 51 scientific journals and editorial memberships of 5 scientific journals Professor Ariadna Sitjà-Bobadilla is an expert in fish parasites and has coordinated the European Project ParaFishControl.
