Program
Lectures - At least two lectures are scheduled each day. The following topics
will be covered:
1. Course introduction, purpose, scope and schedule.
2. Introduction to gross anatomy and normal histology.
3. White Spot Disease (WSSV).
4. The baculovirus and baculo-like virus disease including MBV, BP and BMN.
5. Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus, hepatopancreatic
virus and other parvovirus caused diseases.
6. Taura syndrome, Infectious myonecrosis, Yellowhead and other RNA virus caused
diseases.
7. Bacterial, rickettsial and fungal diseases.
8. Surface fouling diseases.
9. Nutritional diseases.
10. Toxic and environmental disease syndromes.
11. Diseases of unknown or uncertain etiologies.
12. Parasitic diseases.
13. Methods of disease prevention and/or treatment.
14. New diagnostic procedures.
 
Labs and Demonstrations - Two lab sessions are scheduled for each day. Topics to
be covered in the labs include:
1. Fixation procedures for routine histology.
2. Standard histological techniques.
3. Normal histology and post-mortem change of principal organs and tissues.
4. Wet mount diagnostic procedures.
5. PCR/RT-PCR and gene probes for diagnosis of viral diseases.
6. Antibody-based methods for diagnosis of viral diseases.
7. Isolation, culture, identification and antibiotic sensitivity of bacterial
isolates.
8. Histopathology of viral, bacterial, rickettsial, fouling, parasitic, toxic
and nutritional diseases.