Aquatic Animal Diseases and Vaccine Development
A Special Issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888) belonging to the section "Welfare, Health and Disease".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2025) | Viewed by 1759
Editor
Interests: bacterial pathogens; fish immunology; interaction of pathogen and host; multiomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global aquaculture industry faces unprecedented challenges from emerging and re-emerging aquatic animal diseases that threaten food security, biodiversity, and economic stability. We recognize the urgent need to advance our understanding of pathogen–host interactions and accelerate vaccine development for sustainable aquatic health management. This Special Issue aims to publish work on research addressing critical gaps in aquatic animal disease mechanisms for pathogenic microorganisms such as fungal, bacterial, and viral infections, etiology, epidemiology, host non-specific immunity and adaptive immune response, molecular cytopathology, fish mucosal immunology, and vaccine application, as well as fish vaccine design and development and innovative disease control strategies.
Prof. Dr. Aijun Lv
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aquatic animal diseases
- etiology
- epidemiology
- host immune response
- vaccine
- prevention and control
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