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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 | |