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Quick fish sampling guide for disease diagnostics - Blood sampling guide
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Fish blood sampling requires specific techniques and skills that are fundamental for all kinds of analyses such as haematology, chemistry analysis, parasitology/bacteriology investigation, antibody titration, molecular ...
Quick fish sampling guide for disease diagnostics - Wet mount sampling guide (for ectoparasites & fungi)
Type: Tool
Parasitic and fungal infestations represent one of the major challenges to sustainable aquaculture. As part of routine health checks or during abnormal mortality events, screening for ectoparasites and fungi in tilapia, ...
Quick fish sampling guide for disease diagnostics - Molecular diagnostics sampling guide
Type: Tool
Major pathogens of fish and other farmed aquatic animals include bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites. These can lead to serious infectious diseases and losses representing one of the major limitation to sustainable ...
Quick fish sampling guide for disease diagnostics - Bacteriology sampling guide
Type: Tool
Bacterial diseases represent one of the major impediments to sustainable aquaculture. Routine screening for bacterial pathogens at various life stages of tilapia, carp and catfish a are important to minimize their introduction ...
Quick fish sampling guide for disease diagnostics - Histology sampling guide
Type: Tool
During investigation of an abnormal mortality event, fish tissues (or biopsies) for histopathology analysis are collected for disease diagnosis.
Histology consists in the preparation of thin, stained tissue sections for ...
Aquatic Animal Health Package of Practices: Fish epidemiology and health economics
Type: Tool
The absence of accurate baseline data on fish health and production, farm management practices, disease occurrence and mortalities, and the economic value of disease-related losses hampers disease control efforts by farmers ...
Aquatic Animal Health Package of Practices: Syndromic surveillance and disease outbreak characterization
Type: Tool
WorldFish has developed a package of practices for syndromic surveillance and disease outbreak investigation. It contains all the necessary resources for building the awareness and capacity of relevant actors in aquatic ...
Sampling materials for fish disease diagnostics
Type: Tool
Infectious diseases represent one of the major challenges and limitation to sustainable aquaculture. They can have major impacts on animal welfare, livelihood of farmers and threaten the health of captive stocks and wild ...
Aquatic Animal Health Package of Practices: Fish sampling for disease diagnostics
Type: Tool
Quality biological sampling is a fundamental requirement for all kinds of work on diagnosing diseases and screening for pathogens. Fish sampling requires specific techniques and skills to collect good biological samples ...
Quick fish sampling guide for disease diagnostics - Microbiome sampling guide
Type: Tool
Interactions between microbes associated with the host, other organisms present in the system and the environment itself are increasingly recognised to contribute to aquatic animal diseases. Those microbiome assemblages ...