Dr Annette Boerlage

• Gill Health in Scottish salmon aquaculture
  In this project we characterize cases of Complex Gill Disease (CGD) and develop a consistent definition of the disease; improve understanding of the factors that drive gill disease via epidemiologic studies; and create evidence-based information and decision support tools regarding gill disease and fish husbandry.
• Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD) in Canadian salmon aquaculture
  We used evidence-based information to develop a case definition for BKD, improved understanding of risk factors for BKD, and provided insight into the long term effects of BKD and its treatments.  
• Health management in warm-water aquaculture in Vietnam
  We described and characterized marine-finfish aquaculture and red tilapia aquaculture in Vietnam with respect to health management.
• PhD project: Transmission and control of fish-borne zoonotic trematodes in aquaculture
  We provided recommendations for control measures for fish-born zoonotic trematodes in integrated aquaculture-agriculture systems based on a mathematical model that included input of our observational study and transmission experiments.

I have been involved in lectures for BSc and MSc students, as well as providing workshops for industry groups.

• BSc: Animal Science from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
• MSc: Aquaculture & Fisheries from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
• PhD: Quantitative Veterinary Epidemiology and Aquaculture & Fisheries, from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
• Post-Doc: Aquatic epidemiology at Health management, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada.

• Boerlage, A.S., Elghafghuf, A., Stryhn, H., Sanchez, J., Hammell, K.L. 2018. Risk factors associated with time to first clinical case of Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD) in farmed Atlantic Salmon ( Salmo salar L.) in New Brunswick, Canada https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2017.11.014.
• Boerlage, A.S., Dung, T. T., Hoa, T.T.T., Davidson, J., Stryhn, H., Hammell, K.L. 2017. Production of red tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) in floating cages in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: mortality and health management. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. http://www.int-res.com/articles/dao_oa/d124p131.pdf.
• Boerlage, A.S., Nguyen, K.V., Davidson, J., Phan, V.T., Bui, T.N., Dang, L.T., Stryhn, H., Hammell, K.L. 2017. Finfish marine aquaculture in northern Vietnam: Factors related to pathogen introduction and spread. Aquaculture, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2016.09.037.
• Boerlage, A.S., Stryhn, H., Sanchez, J., Hammell, K.L. 2016. Case definition for clinical and subclinical Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD) in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) in New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of fish diseases, http://doi.org/10.1111/jfd.12521.   
• Boerlage, A.S.; Graat, E.A.M.; Verreth, J.A.J.; Jong, M.C.M. de. 2013. Effect of control strategies on the persistence of fish-borne zoonotic Trematodes: a modeling approach. Aquaculture, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2013.05.026.

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