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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kawato, Yasuhiko
• Kiryu, Ikunari
• Kawamura, Yoshihiro
• Nakajima, Kazuhiro

Titel

Red Sea Bream Iridoviral Disease in Hatchery-Reared Devil Stinger Inimicus japonicus

Ist Teil von

• Fish Pathology, 2017, Vol.52(4), pp.206-209

Ort / Verlag

Tokyo: The Japanese Society of Fish Pathology

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A disease outbreak occurred in hatchery-reared devil stinger Inimicus japonicus (approximately 2 g). Abnormally enlarged cells specific for red sea bream iridoviral disease (RSIVD) were observed in the moribund fish. Red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV) genome (106.1-8.9 copies/mg tissue) were detected from the dead fish. The nucleotide sequence of the MCP gene of the isolated virus was identical to those of the RSIV isolates previously reported in Japan. In an infection trial, all of devil stinger intraperitoneally inoculated with the virus (102.3 TCID50/fish) died and the viral genome was detected from the dead fish at 106.9-9.2 copies/mg tissue. This is the first report of RSIVD in devil stinger.