IUSA-ONE HEALTH 2: Animal Health in Aquaculture and Wildlife, Infectious Diseases and Food Safety

Affiliated Research areas

• Veterinary and applied animal sciences

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

• Infectious diseases
• Fish & shellfish diseases
• Marine biotoxins
• Herpetology
• Mycology & Mycosis

Summary

- Biotoxins detection in the marine environment and food security: This line tries to answer the challenges regarding the presence of different marine biotoxins in the aquatic environment and different species that are part of the marine and continental food chain.the environment and the causes that justify the increase in its prevalence in recent years are investigated. The risk of presentation and its possible transmission to the humans is assessed. Different methods for detecting the toxins and the consequences on the health of the affected species are also studied.
- Mycology-Micosis: This line involves fungus as causative agents of infectious diseases with interest in veterinary medicine. These agents of diseases are also studied in different animals species, and the epidemiology of different major fungal diseases and possible measures for controlling. Particularly, study of zoonoses, including the mechanisms of transmission and control of these outbreaks are also considered.
- Fish, mollusc and crustacean diseases: This line is focused on the study of the main fish diseases that affect its production. Some of them are related to an infectious nature of the first level of interest. Immune response of fish, definition of new causal agents, pathogenicity factors and methods to fight against disease is mainly investigated. This line also includes those diseases that affect humans and are carried by fish. Particularly stand out the diseases included in the oie list and those of interest, such as zoonoses.
- Herpetology: This line develops the study of different cause of diseases in reptiles, specially those involving infectious diseases, and their clinical and pathological signs