This is the (MB492/592) Home Page. For a bit more information about the course click here. Diseases of Fish. The course is offered in Spring term: Lecture is offered every year and the accompanying Fish Diseases Laboratory course (MB 493/593) is offered in alternate years. The course builds on a long standing tradition of interest and research into fish diseases here at OSU. The course has been taught for many years by Dr. John Fryer, a pioneer in the field (stream?) of fish diseases. In Spring, 1996 after Dr. Fryer's retirement, the course was continued by Dr. Paul Reno who will continue to teach this course until he is much older and greyer than he is now.
In order to reach interested students with a broad range of backgrounds, the course prerequisites are limited to two years of biological sciences. The prerequisite/corequisite for the laboratory is MB 492/592.
Since this is the first year that I have taught this course, I have, for good or ill, taken an experimental approach to this course. There are no examinations required (phewww!); however, the students are required to select one particular disease or pathogen, compile an extensive bibliography and write a short paper on the selected topic. In addition, based on the background information they have gathered, the students will each prepare a short fish disease web page. The results of their efforts are included as links to this home page. As the years go by, hopefully new chapters will be added to the saga of fish diseases included here. Here is the first crop of creative, informative web pages.
A. Bacterial Diseases
B. Viral Diseases
8. Viral hemorrhagic septicemia
9. Infectious pancreatic necrosis
Parasitic Diseases
10. Ichthyopththerius multifiliis
12. Enterocytozoon salmonis and plasmacytoid leukemia
Obviously, this web page is under construction and will hopefully be finished by the second millenium. By then, there will be no fish diseases!
If you have any questions or comments or are, by some bizzare quirk of fate, interested in taking this course for the future, please email me. Paul Reno.