Tecnicas de diagnostico empleadas para la deteccion de enfermedades en peces con potencial en la piscicultura del ecuador

Abstract

Aquaculture is having an accelerated development worldwide, which has highlighted the need to give importance to what concerns animal health or aquaculture health; in addition to working on the identification of pathogens that enter the culture systems and their identification through diagnostic techniques, for which mainly observation is given. In Ecuador, rainbow trout is produced with greater emphasis in the province of Pichincha with a total of 74 hatcheries which represent 34% of the national production; the chame is another specimen with potential in fish farming. Its advantages of this culture is that the chame has a good growth and can remain alive with low oxygen so it can be exported alive. One of the main limitations in fish production are pathogens which occur as viruses, batteries, protozoa and fungi, the main diagnostic techniques of these pathogens are histopathology, microbiology and PCR, these techniques will be mentioned in the present work.