Fish Pathology

Dear Colegaues,

Diseases are increasingly recognized as a constraint on aquaculture and fisheries’ productivity, causing economic loss through mortalities and reduced commercial species’ growth and/or meat quality. Clinical observation, morphopathological characterization, diagnosis, and pathogenesis studies of diseases are critical to decipher the pathological puzzle and devise successful disease prevention strategies.

The aim of this Special Issue is to present state-of-the-art research and future directions on the pathology of diseases in wild and cultured fish. We encourage the submission of original research (basic and applied) or review papers from different areas, such as diseases caused by biotic and abiotic factors, new and emerging diseases, nutritional disorders, as well as experimental studies enhancing understanding of the pathogenetic mechanisms of specific processes or the host immune response.

You are cordially invited to contribute on this theme or related research topics in order to improve the knowledge on diseases in fish.

Dr. Paolo Ronza
Prof. María Isabel Quiroga
Guest Editors

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