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27th ANNUAL EASTERN FISH HEALTH WORKSHOP
March 18 – 22, 2002

Holiday Inn and Conference Center

Mount Pleasant, SC
Sponsored by:
NATIONAL FISH HEALTH RESEARCH LABORATORY
11700 LEETOWN ROAD
KEARNEYSVILLE, WV 25430




Tuesday, 19 March 2002

Cipriano
Appraisal of Recommendations For Disinfecting Eggs Of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) In Iodophor


Nomura
Epidemiological Study Of Aeromonas salmonicida, Causative Agent Of Furunculosis, In Salmonid Fish In Japan

Nasbaum
Duration Of Fasting And Its Effect On Stress-Induced Aeromonas hydrophila Bacteremia In Channel Catfish

Starliper         
An Examination Of Diversity Of Flavobacterium psychrophilum Isolates From Different Origins And A Note On A Medium Used To Recover Isolates From Long-Term Frozen Storage

Bader
Comparative Challenge Model Of Flavobacterium columnare Using Scarified And Unscarified Channel Catfish, Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque)

Srisopaporn           
Treatment Of Flavobacterium columnare Infection In Channel Catfish (Ictarulus punctatus)



Keystone Address

Olivier        
Aquatic Animal Health: The International Perspective


Amos     
Development Of An Aquatic Animal Health Plan For Salmonids In The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

Hughes                     
Clinical Presentations Of Mycobacterium sp. In Summer Flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, Held In Recirculating Systems

Pasnik     
Immunomodulatory Effects And Efficacy Of A DNA Vaccine For Aquatic Mycobacteriosis

Thune
Identification Of Factors Involved In The Pathogenesis Of Edwardsiella ictaluri


Bullock
Development Of Oxytetracycline Resistance In Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Gut Flora And Sediment In A Recirculating Culture System

Densmore
Immunomodulation And Disease Resistance In Myxobolus cerebralis Infected Rainbow Trout



That Devil White Spot, Ich! - Harry Dickerson

Ewing         
Ichthyophthirius: The Historical Context

Schachte
A Twenty Year Historical Perspective Of Ichthyophthirius multifilis Epizootics In New York State Fish Hatcheries

Tianlong           
Ichthyophthirius and Aquaculture in the People’s Republic of China

Maki        
Serum And Cutaneous Antibody Responses Of Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) Against Ichthyophthirius multifiliis Following Immunization By Infection Or Injection Of Immobilization Antigen (I-Ag)

Xu     
Effect Of Cutaneous Antibodies From Ichthyophthirius Immune Fish On Ichthyophthirius Development In Catfish

Clark                     
Cloning And Expression Of Surface I-Antigen Genes Of Ichthyophthirius multifiliis

Dickerson     
Elicitation Of Protective Immunity Against Ichthyophthirius multifiliis In Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) By Immunization With Immobilization Antigens





Wednesday, 20 March 2002



Bowser
Blood Chemistries Of Healthy, Nephrocalcinosis-Affected, And Ozone-Treated Tilapia In Recirculation Systems


Dacanay
Studies Of Immunoglobulin Structure And Diversity In Non-Salmonid Marine Fish

Iwanowicz
A Fluorescence Based Cytotoxic Assay For Fish Leucocytes Using Calcein AM Labeled Adherent Target Cells

Evans         
Nonspecific Cytotoxic Cells Express Cytosolic And Membrane Histone-Like Proteins

Kaur
Expression Of Scavenger Receptor-A On Catfish Cytotoxic Cells

Oumouna           
Binding Of Bacterial Genomic DNA And Synthetic Oligodeoxynucleotides Leads To Activation Of Tilapia Nonspecific Cytotoxic Cells (NCC)

Praveen        
Construction And Characterization Of An Activated Nonspecific Cytotoxic Cells (NCC) cDNA Expression Library From Tilapia Peripheral Blood



What’s Happening To Our Coral? - Garriett Smith

Woodley     
Assessing The Health Of Corals In The Florida Keys Using A Cellular Diagnostic System

Ritchie                     
A Caribbean Echinoderm Pathogen: Identification And Host Range

Gil-Agudelo     
First Steps In The Identification Of The Causal Agent Of The Dark Spots Disease In Stony Corals

Garrison
Timbuktu Meets Coral Reefs: Chemical Contaminants In African Dust


Smith
An Update On The Aspergillosis-Gorgonian Story: Increased Host Range And Strain Origins

Lewes
United States East And Gulf Coast Shellfish Study

Kern    
Update Of The Issues Surrounding The Introduction Of The Asian Oyster, Crassostrea ariakensis, Into Chesapeake Bay

Allen
The Effect of pH on the Killing Activity of Hemocytes in the Pacific Oyster, Crassostrea Gigas

Burnett           
Impacts Of Short-Term Exposure To Hypercapnic Hypoxia On The Susceptibility Of The Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, To Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Dantzler        
Effects Of Hypercapnic Hypoxia On The Bactericidal Activity Of Hemocytes From The Penaeid Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei

Minagawa     
Characterization And Expression Of C-Type Lysozyme cDNA From Kuruma Shrimp (Penaeus japonicus)

Tall                     
Virulence Factors Expressed By Vibrio tubiashii, A Pathogen Of Invertebrates And Vertebrates?



What’s Wrong With That Lobster?-Bruce Estrella

Laufer
Crustacean Hormones As Indicators Of Normal Development, Reproduction, And Stress

Horst
Acute Effects Of Methoprene On Survival, Cuticular Morphogenesis And Shell Biosynthesis In The American Lobster, Homarus americanus.


Chistoserdov, Smolowitz
Bacterial Assemblages And Histopathology Of Shell Disease

Robohm
Improved Analysis Of Shell-Disease Severity In Offshore Populations Of American Lobster

Frasca, Jr.    
Histopathologic And Molecular Aspects Of Paramoebiasis In Lobster (Homarus americanus) With Emphasis On The Long Island Sound Die-Off

Tall
CHO Cell Elongation Factor Found in Limp Lobster Disease Vibrio fluvialis Isolates





Thursday, 21 March 2002


Bebak-Williams           
Status Of Attempts To Isolate And Characterize A Rickettsia-like Organism (RLO) From Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus)

Bowser        
Dose-Titration Assay Of Walleye Dermal Sarcoma Tumor Homogenate

McAllister     
Rescue Of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss) Gametes Compromised By Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV)

O'Farrell                     
A Global Survey Of Transcript Expression In Rainbow Trout Leukocytes During The Early Response To Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus Infection

Sutton
Identification Of A Novel Piscine Retrovirus Associated With An Outbreak Of Swimbladder Sarcoma In Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar

Merrill
Infectious Salmon Anemia In The United States: A Synopsis Of Maine’s Experiences With A Devastating Disease


Miller
APHIS Veterinary Services Implements An Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) Program

Olivier
Infectious Salmon Anaemia Is Not Vertically Transmitted; Evidence From Recent Experiments In New Brunswick, Canada



Diseases Among Ornamental Fish - Stephen Smith

Yanong    
An Overview Of Diseases Of Freshwater Ornamental Finfish Aquaculture In Florida

Perry
Fish Health Management At A Wholesale Facility

Caffara           
Parasitological Findings In Freshwater Ornamental Fish Imported In Italy: A Five Years Survey

Shotts        
Selected Diseases Of Pet And Ornamental Fish: Their Detection, Identification, And Management

Smith     
Husbandry And Management Of Aquatics At The Retail Level



Managing Health In Commercial Aquaria –Brent Whitaker

Crichton                     
Challenges Of Establishing And Maintaining A Healthy Collection During The Start Up Of A Public Aquarium

Greenwell
Fish Health Management In Public Aquaria

Arnold
Summary Of Bacterial Isolates From Fish At The National Aquarium In Baltimore


Berzins
Common Syngnathid Health Problems

Berzins
Spinal Deformities In Captive Sandtiger Sharks (Carcharius taurus)

Giardina    
Amphibian Health In A Public Aquarium

Whitaker
Chromomycosis In Amphibians



Alone On The Beach: Strandings And Other Marine Animal Health Issues -Cindy Driscoll

Driscoll           
Marine Mammal And Sea Turtle Stranding Efforts In Maryland

Bonde        
Overview Of Research, Health And Recovery Efforts For The Florida Manatee

Lipscomb     
A Brief Overview Of Morbilliviral Epizootics In Aquatic Mammals

Segars                     
In-Water Sea Turtle Abundance And Health Assessment Study Off The Coast Of The Southeastern United States

Sutton
Recent Developments In The Spread And Study Of Marine Turtle Fibropapillomatosis And The Fibropapilloma Associated Turtle Herpesvirus

Moore
Acute Causes Of Sea Turtle Death: Identifying Turtle In Your Soup





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