Viral Diseases of Aquaculture: Epidemiology, Mechanism, Diagnosis and Treatment 2.0
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Viruses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2024) | Viewed by 11246
Special Issue Editors
Interests: diseases of aquatic animals
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Interests: diseases of aquatic animals; fish viruses; epidemiology; co-infection; vaccine development
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Dear Colleagues,
Since the identification of the first aquatic animal virus, more than 70 have been isolated worldwide, with some members being highly virulent and widely distributed, causing huge global economic losses, and more than half of the OIE-listed ones being viral diseases. Despite a growing understanding of aquatic animal viruses in recent years, they still present serious threats to the sustainable development of aquaculture due to a high infectivity and lack of effective antiviral treatments. Viral diseases are the result of the “pathogen–host–environment” interaction. Epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment studies are critical to reveal the complexity of viral diseases and develop efficient prevention strategies against them in the field of aquaculture.
In this Special Issue on “Viral Diseases of Aquaculture: Epidemiology, Mechanism, Diagnosis and Treatment”, we seek research papers contributing to our understanding of viral diseases of aquaculture, studying topics including but not limited to epidemiology, emerging diseases, virus identification, virus infection mechanism, diagnosis, virulence, vaccines, and antiviral research.
Dr. Pengfei Li
Prof. Dr. Liming Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- viral diseases of aquaculture
- emerging diseases
- virus epidemiology
- virus identification
- infection mechanism
- biosecurity
- diagnostic techniques
- virulence
- antiviral research
- vaccines
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