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

ISBN-13: 9789400718890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 54 str.

Vladimir Gouli; Svetlana Gouli; Jose Marcelino

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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); Rickettsia; Fungi and Microsporidia and Protozoa. Gregarine and Coccidian parasitoids are also depicted. Manuals for the diagnostic of insect diseases have been published in the 90 s, however, these were intended for professional insect pathologists or for proficient training in invertebrate pathology, hence requiring some scientific background in insect pathology. Currently, most guides are web based, not comprehensive and solely addressing the most common diseases in a particular insect, or group of insects, reared in laboratory facilities. A comprehensive and proficient practical handbook for students and technicians working with insect reared colonies is lacking in the current literature."

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Preface

INTRODUCTION                 

 Handbook objectives      

Reared insects in biotechnology programs            

Importance of insect infection diseases

Economic impact of insects         

Classification of insect diseases

        

CHAPTER 1. PRINCIPAL GROUP OF INFECTIOUS INSECT DISEASES             

1.1.Viral diseases            

A. Typical nucleopolyhedroses

A.1. Morphology of the pathogens         

A.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

A.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

A.4. Hosts           

B. Nuclear polyhedrosis of the intestinal epithelium      

B.1. Morphology of the pathogen           

B.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

B.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

B.4. Hosts           

C. Granuloses   

C.1. Morphology of the pathogens         

C.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

C.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

C.4. Hosts           

D. Cytoplasmaic polyhedrosis 

D.1. Morphology of the pathogens         

D.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

D.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

D.4. Hosts           

E. Poxvirus diseases       

E.1. Morphology of the pathogens          

E.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

E.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

E.4. Hosts           

F. Iridescent viral diseases

F.1. Morphology of the pathogens          

F.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

F.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

F.4. Hosts           

1.2. Bacterial diseases   

A. Bacterioses caused by Bacillus thuringiensis and B. cereus      

A.1. Morphology of the pathogens         

A.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

A.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

A.4. Hosts           

B. Milky diseases caused by the bacteria Bacillus popilliae & Bacillus lentimorbus               

B.1. Morphology of the pathogens         

B.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

B.3. Pathomorphology of diseases          

B.4. Hosts           

C. Pseudomonadaceae & Enterobacteriaceae infections              

1.3 Rickettsial diseases 

A.1. Morphology of the pathogens         

A.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

A.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

A.4. Hosts           

1.4. Fungal diseases       

A. Entomophthoralean infections            

A.1. Morphology of the pathogens         

A.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

A.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

A.4. Hosts           

B. Muscardine diseases

B.1. Morphology of the pathogens         

B.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

B.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

B.4. Hosts           

C. Microsporidia diseases            

C.1. Morphology of the pathogens         

C.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

C.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

C.4. Hosts           

1.5. Diseases of protozoan origin             

A. Amebiases of insects               

A.1. Morphology of the pathogens         

A.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

A.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

A.4. Hosts           

B. Gregarious of insects           

B.1. Morphology of the pathogens         

B.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

B.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

B.4. Hosts

C. Coccidiosis of insects              

C.1. Morphology of the pathogens         

C.2. External signs and symptoms of disease      

C.3. Pathomorphology of disease            

C.4. Hosts           

1.6. Mixed infections     

 

CHAPTER 2. MANIFESTATION OF INFECTION DISEASES IN INSECT CULTURES       

 

CHAPTER 3. METHODS OF PRACTICAL DIAGNOSTIC OF 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            

 

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