The Pathology of Fishes
Proceedings of a Symposium
Description:... This volume's 38 specific chapters are grouped under six major headings: specific diseases; diseases of a species; lesions of organ systems; chemical and physical agents of disease; nutritional disease; and neoplasia. Within these groups, the contributors discuss a wide variety of topics, including protozoan and bacterial diseases; infection of gills by amebas; internal helminths; crustacean parasites; parasites in tissue sections; fish viral diseases; the major diseases of catfish; channel catfish virus disease; gill lesions; diseases of muscle; kidney disease; ophthalmic pathology; melanin-containing cells; skin lesions; liver and spleen in Atlantic menhaden; radiation-induced hematopoietic lesions; effects of pesticides; mercury; cadmium; lesions due to drugs; chemically induced lesions; skeletal anomalies; nutritional deficiencies in catfish; intestinal histology of starvation; ascorbic acid deficiency; nutritional myopathy; visceral granuloma and nephrocalcinosis; neoplasia; neoplasms in feral fishes; tumors of perch; lymphoreticular neoplasia; blood changes associated with neoplastic diseases and melanomas. More than 450 illustrations, including many photomicrographic enlargements, elucidate the text.
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