Indigenous microbiota play a critical role in the lives of their vertebrate hosts. In human and
mouse models it is increasingly clear that innate and adaptive immunity develop in close …

The worldwide growth of aquaculture has been accompanied by a rapid increase in
therapeutic and prophylactic usage of antimicrobials including those important in human …

Aquatic animal diseases are one of the major limiting factors in aquaculture development,
with disease emergence forecast to increase with global change. However, in order to treat …

Various emerging and re‐emerging diseases, such as streptococcosis, tilapia lake virus
disease and infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus disease, have had a significant …

Parasitic infections are ubiquitous in wildlife, livestock and human populations, and healthy
ecosystems are often parasite rich. Yet, their negative impacts can be extreme …

Flavobacterium columnare (F. columnare) is the causative agent of columnaris disease. This
bacterium affects both cultured and wild freshwater fish including many susceptible …

Gaining insight in likely disease emergence scenarios is critical to preventing such events
from happening. Recent focus has been on emerging zoonoses and on identifying common …

Bacterial virulence is highly dynamic and context-dependent. For this reason, it is
challenging to predict how molecular changes affect the growth of a pathogen in a host and …

Fish aquaculture for commodity production, fisheries enhancement and conservation is
expanding rapidly, with many cultured species undergoing inadvertent or controlled …

Emerging diseases are impacting animals under high‐density culture, yet few studies
assess their importance to wild populations. Microparasites selected for enhanced virulence …