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| Methods for Diagnosing Fish Diseases | |
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| Major Cultured Species | |
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| Types of Culture Systems | |
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| The Clinical Work-Up | |
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| Post Mortem Techniques | |
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| Guidelines for Interpreting Clinical Findings | |
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| Health Management | |
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| Problem List | |
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| Problems 1-10. Diagnoses made with commercially available water quality test kits or equipment that should be present in the clinician's clinic | |
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| Environmental hypoxia | |
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| Temperature stress | |
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| Temperature stratification | |
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| Ammonia poisoning | |
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| Nitrite poisoning | |
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| Nitrate poisoning | |
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| Too low (acidic) pH | |
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| Too high (alkaline) pH | |
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| Improper hardness | |
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| Improper salinity | |
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| PROBLEMS 11-43: Diagnoses made by either gross external examination of fish, wet mounts of skin/gills, or histopathology of skin/gills | |
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| Gas supersaturation | |
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| Lamprey infestation | |
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| Leech infestation | |
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| Copepod infestation/infection | |
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| Branchiuran infestation | |
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| Isopod infestation | |
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| Monogenean infestation | |
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| Turbellarian infection | |
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| Protozoan ectoparasites: General features | |
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| Ichthyophthirius infection | |
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| Cryptocaryon infection | |
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| Trichodinid infestation | |
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| Chilodonella infestation | |
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| Brooklynella infestation | |
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| Tetrahymena infection | |
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| Uronema infection | |
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| Amyloodinium infestation | |
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| Piscinoodinium infestation | |
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| Ichthyobodo infestation | |
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| Gill Cryptobia infestations | |
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| Gill amoebic infestations | |
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| Sessile, solitary, ectocommensal ciliate infestations | |
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| Sessile, colonial, ectocommensal ciliate infestations | |
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| Typical water mold infections | |
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| Atypical water mold infections | |
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| Branchiomycosis | |
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| Columnaris infection | |
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| Bacterial cold water disease | |
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| Bacterial gill disease | |
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| Lymphocystis | |
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| Epitheliocystis | |
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| Miscellaneous skin and gill diseases | |
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| Incidental findings in skin or gill wet mounts | |
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| PROBLEM 44: Diagnoses made by examination of a gill clip or a blood smear | |
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| Primary hemopathies | |
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| PROBLEMS 45-57: Diagnoses made by bacterial culture of kidney or affected organs | |
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| Bacterial dermatopathies/systemic bacterial infections (general) | |
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| Motile aeromonad infection | |
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| Furunculosis | |
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| Edwardsiella ictaluri | |
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| Edwardsiella tarda | |
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| Vibriosis | |
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| Pasteurellosis | |
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| Enteric redmouth disease | |
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| Streptococcosis | |
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| Bacterial kidney disease | |
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| Mycobacteriosis | |
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| Piscirickettsiosis | |
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| Miscellaneous systemic bacterial infections | |
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| PROBLEMS 58-76: Diagnoses made by necropsy of the viscera and examination of wet mounts or histopathology of internal organs | |
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| Digenean trematode infection: General features | |
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| Gill digenean trematode infections | |
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| Nematode infections | |
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| Cestode infections | |
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| Acanthocephalan infections | |
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| Myxozoan infections (General) | |
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| Proliferative gill disease | |
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| Ceratomyxosis | |
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| Hoferellus carassii | |
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| Proliferative kidney disease | |
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| Whirling disease | |
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| Miscellaneous myxozoan infections | |
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| Microsporidian infections | |
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| Ichthyophonosis | |
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| True fungal infections | |
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| Diplomonad flagellate infection | |
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| Tissue coccidiosis | |
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| Miscellaneous endoparasitic infections | |
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| Idiopathic epidermal proliferation/Neoplasia | |
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| PROBLEMS 77-88: Rule-out diagnoses 1 (Viral Infections): Presumptive diagnosis is based upon the absence of other etiologies combined with a diagnostically appropriate history, clinical signs, and/or pathology. Definitive diagnosis is based upon presumptive diagnosis combined with confirmation of viral presence (i.e., culture, immmunodiagnosis, gene test, etc.) | |
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| Systemic viral diseases (General) molecular probes | |
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| Channel catfish virus disease | |
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| Infectious pancreatic necrosis | |
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| Infectious hematopoietic necrosis | |
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| Viral hemorrhagic septicemia | |
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| Infectious salmon anemia | |
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| Spring viremia of carp | |
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| Iridovirus diseases | |
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| Nodavirus diseases | |
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| Koi herpesvirus disease | |
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| Alphavirus diseases | |
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| Miscellaneous viral infections and diseases | |
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| PROBLEMS 89-99: Rule-out diagnoses 2: Presumptive diagnosis is based upon the absence of other etiologies combined with a diagnostically appropriate history, clinical signs, and/or pathology. Definitive diagnosis is based upon presumptive evidence combined with further, more extensive work-up with a specific identification of the problem | |
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| Nutritional deficiency | |
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| Hypercarbia | |
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| Hydrogen sulfide poisoning | |
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| Chlorine/chloramine poisoning | |
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| Heavy metal poisoning | |
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| Cyanide poisoning | |
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| Miscellaneous poisonings | |
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| Harmful algal blooms | |
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| Acute ulceration response/Environmental shock/delayed mortality syndrome | |
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| Traumatic lesions | |
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| Genetic anomalies | |
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| PROBLEMS 100-102: Rule-out diagnoses 3: Presumptive diagnosis is based upon the absence of other etiologies combined with a diagnostically appropriate history, clinical signs, and/or pathology. Definitive diagnosis is not possible since the etiology is unknown (idiopathic) | |
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| Lateral Line Depigmentation | |
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| Senescence | |
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| Miscellaneous important idiopathic diseases | |
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| PROBLEM 103: Diseases of Reproduction | |
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| Egg diseases | |
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| Methods for Treating Fish Diseases | |
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| General Concepts in Therapy | |
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| Pharmacopoeia | |
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| Fish Disease Diagnosis Form | |
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| Suppliers | |
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| Scientific Names of Fish Mentioned in the Text | |
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| Definitions of Terms | |
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| Index | |