title: Adsorption to fish sperm of vertically transmitted fish viruses.
abstract: More than 99 percent of a vertically transmitted fish rhabdovirus, infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus, was removed from suspension in less than 1 minute by adsorption to the surface membrane of sperm from two genera of salmonid fishes. The vertically transmitted, infectious pancreatic necrosis virus adsorbed to a lesser degree, but no adsorption occurred with a second fish rhabdovirus that is not vertically transmitted. Such adsorption may be involved in vertical transmission of these viruses.
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D000818:Animals; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission; D008297:Male; D012209:Rhabdoviridae / Q000378:metabolism; D012474:Salmon / Q000382:microbiology; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000382:microbiology*; D014337:Trout / Q000382:microbiology; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*