Common Infectious Diseases of Insects in Culture Diagnostic and Prophylactic Methods /

• Main Authors: Gouli, Vladimir (Author), Gouli, Svetlana (Author), Marcelino, Jose (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Animal Sciences,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Microbiology.; Entomology.; Life Sciences.; Applied Microbiology.

This handbook gives a comprehensive and copious illustrated description, with original art work, of the most common diseases in laboratory reared insect colonies, comprising Viruses (Baculoviridae, Reoviridae, Poxviridae, Iridoviridae); Bacteria (Bacillaceae, Pseudomonadaceae, Enterobacteriaceae); R...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Principal group of infectious insect diseases
• 1.1.Viral diseases
• 1.2. Bacterial diseases
• 1.3 Rickettsial diseases
• 1.4. Fungal diseases
• 1.5. Diseases of protozoan origin
• 1.6. Mixed infections
• Chapter 2. Manifestation of infection diseases in insect cultures
• Chapter 3. Methods of practical diagnostic diseases
• 3.1.Preliminary diagnosis
• 3.2.Processing of pathological material for analyses
• 3.3.Microscopic examination of pathological material
• Chapter 4. Prophylactics of infectious diseases in insect cultures
• 4.1. Selection of animals for establishment of healthy laboratory colonies
• 4.2. Insect sanitation and therapy of disease
• 4.3. Sanitary measures in rearing facilities
• General references.