Viral Diseases in Aquaculture
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Aquatic Animals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 2179
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aquaculture is the most profitable practice in the food production sector. However, diseases continue to pose a threat to the growth of aquaculture. Diseases in aquaculture are caused mainly by viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Particularly, viral diseases cause multibillion-dollar losses to the aquaculture industry, which has experienced more frequent viral disease outbreaks in the last two decades. According to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the most listed pathogens in aquatic animals belong to viral families, accounting for more than 50% of OIE’s notifiable diseases for aquatic animals. Notably, OIE’s listed diseases for aquatic animals display only diseases causing mass mortality to cultured fish or shrimp. Some viruses that do not cause mass mortality do not catch the attention of aquaculture society, but they contribute to losses by stunting growth or increasing the susceptibility of the host.
Therefore, viral studies are necessary to give us a better understanding of viral diseases in aquaculture.
With that being said, we are pleased to invite you to submit your unpublished research to a Special Issue entitled “Viral Diseases in Aquaculture”. This Special Issue aims to present all aspects of viral diseases in aquaculture including molecular virology, viral evolution, pathogenesis, epidemiology, virus bioinformatics and viral immunology.
For this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
I/We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Hung N. Mai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- molecular virology
- viral evolution
- pathogenesis
- epidemiology
- virus bioinformatics
- viral immunology
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