Synopsis of freshwater crayfish diseases and commensal organisms
By B. Edgerton, L. Evans, F. Stephens, R. Overstreet. 2002
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Disease agents and pests associated with freshwater crayfish fall into six main categories—viruses, bacteria, rickettsia-like organisms (RLOs), fungi, protists and metazoans. Data and information on specific disease agents and pests from each of these categories are presented in this synopsis. Each agent or group of agents is considered under the following headings—condition, causative agent(s), life cycle/life history, epizootiology, pathology, pathogen viability. Information for the synopsis was obtained from the published literature and from personal contact with internationally recognised experts in freshwater crayfish aquaculture, biology and disease. Data of relevance for import risk analysis are summarised. Import risk analysis is the process by which the risks associated with importation of animals and plants, and products derived from animals and plants, are assessed and managed. Hazard identification is essential and is the first component of an import risk analysis. In 1996, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) commenced a review of policy relating to the importation of non-viable freshwater crayfish products, along with a suite of other aquatic animal products. AQIS commissioned a synopsis of freshwater crayfish pests and pathogens for use as a resource document for hazard identification in the formal IRA process.
Subfields: Immunology, Insect Science
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Citations in the corpus
- A Review of the Culture and Diseases of Redclaw Crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (Von Martens 1868) (2013, unknown): “RLOs are small, pleomorphic, rod-shaped coccoid prokaryotes, most of which are Gram-positive intracellular organisms (Edgerton et al. 2002; Longshaw 2011).”
- Red swamp crayfish: biology, ecology and invasion - an overview (2015, background): “In Europe, P. clarkii was first introduced into the Iberian Peninsula, legally imported from Louisiana for commercial purposes in 1973, at two aquaculture installations in Seville and Badajoz (HabsburgoLorena, 1979).”
- The ecology and emergence of diseases in fresh waters (2011, background): “…lacking, and in spite of growing interest in freshwater biodiversity and conservation (e.g. Dudgeon et al., 2006; Bailan et al., 2008), the role of infectious diseases as a conservation threat remains understudied for most groups (e.g. Edgerton et al., 2002; Collins & Crump, 2009; Winfield, 2009).”