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An overview of PCR techniques for shrimp disease diagnosis in Asia, with emphasis on Thailand
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2002)
Asia leads the world in cultivated shrimp production with export earnings in the order of billions of US dollars per year. In spite of this success, annual production decreased in the late nineties because of widespread ...
Diagnostic and preventive practices for WSSV in Japan
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2002)
White spot syndrome (WSS), considered equivalent to PAV (penaeid acute viremia) in Japan, has become the most serious problem not only in the farming industry but also in hatcheries for sea ranching of kuruma prawn, Penaeus ...
Diagnostic practices for marine fish viral diseases in Thailand
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2002)
The Department of Fisheries, Thailand has three institutions that are capable of virus isolation using fish cell culture system: the Aquatic Animal Health Research Institute (AAHRI), the National Institute of Coastal ...
Diagnostic and preventive practices for iridovirus in marine fish
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2002)
The first outbreak of red sea bream iridoviral disease (RSIVD) caused by red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV) was recorded among cultured red sea bream (Pagrus major) in 1990 in Ehime, Shikoku, Japan. Since then, the disease ...
Advances in diagnosis and management of shrimp virus diseases in the Americas
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2002)
The most important diseases of cultured penaeid shrimp, in terms of economic impact, in Asia, the Indo-Pacific, and the Americas, have infectious etiologies. Although diseases with bacterial, fungal, and parasitic etiologies ...