Fish Vaccines

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Adams, Alexandra (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Vaccines.; Infectious diseases.; Biochemistry.; Aquatic ecology.; Wildlife.; Fish.; Life Sciences.; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management.; Vaccine.; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science.; Infectious Diseases.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.; Animal Biochemistry.

This book provides a useful text for research students and scientists on the latest knowledge about the immune system of fish, cutting edge technologies and the step required to develop, test and commercialise fish vaccines. It brings together information that is currently difficult to obtain in one...

Table of Contents:

• Fish disease causing economic impact in global aquaculture
• Overview of the fish adaptive immune system
• Development of fish vaccines - focusing on methods
• Adjuvants and delivery methods –current and novel
• Fish vaccines - the regulatory process and requirements from the laboratory bench to a final commercial product, including field trials
• Methods for measuring efficacy, safety and potency of fish vaccines
• Potential of DIVA Vaccines for Fish.