title: Fish viruses: transmission and pathogenicity of an icosahedral cytoplasmic deoxyribovirus isolated from sheatfish (Silurus glanis).
abstract: An iridovirus-like agent which was isolated from sheatfish fry showed to be of high virulence to those fish. 100% of sheatfish fry infected by water bath died within 8 days. The agent could be transmitted by infected fish causing 100% mortality in 11 days. Moribund fry showed spiralic swimming and exhibited hemorrhages in the skin. The infection studies demonstrate that the isolated virus was responsible for a sudden epizootic in 1988 with 100% mortality occurring in a warm water recirculating aquaculture unit in Northwest Germany, regularly controlled by the State Fish Epidemics Control Service of Lower Saxony and Fish Health Service.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Munich, FRG.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ahne
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Schlotfeldt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002397:Catfishes; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission; D007497:Iridoviridae / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D014774:Virulence; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*