ALIGARH, March 3: Professor Gerard P. Brennan, President, Microscopical Society of Ireland, Professor Ferguson Hugh William, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland and Professor Robert E. Bob Hanna, Biosciences Institute for Northern Ireland visited the Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University and interacted with faculty members.
Professor Absar Mustafa Khan, Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences welcomed the foreign dignitaries and highlighted the academic and research activities of the Department of Zoology.
Professor Ferguson Hugh William also delivered a lecture on 'Emerging problems in fish pathology'. He said that we are being constantly encouraged to eat more fish for the health of our own heart, it is indeed ironic that the animals themselves are suffering from increasing levels of sever cardiovascular disease, particularly in farmed salmonids.
Aside from involvement in some of the alphaviral diseases, examples include cardiomyopathy syndrome of salmon, a disease that targets the largest and fastest-growing fish, but for which no cause has yet been determined. Animals frequently die due to a ruptured atrium, a consequence of severe necrosis of the spongy myocardium. If the fish survives, the heart tissue will completely regenerate. He said that bacterial diseases continue to dominate the daily diagnostic caseload. Examples include emerging chronic granulomatous diseases of warm water fish, cash by Francisella sp. and Edwardiella ictaluri in tilapia in Central America and in Pangasius catfish in Vietnam, respectively.
(Dr. Rahat Abrar)
Public Relations' Officer
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