Plasmacytoid leukemia of chinook salmon.
Plasmacytoid leukemia is a common disease of seawater pen-reared chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in British Columbia, Canada, but has also been detected in wild salmon, in freshwater-reared salmon in United States, and in salmon from netpens in Chile. The disease can be transmitted under laboratory conditions, and is associated with a retrovirus, the salmon leukemia virus. However, the proliferating plasmablasts are often infected with the microsporean Enterocytozoon salmonis, which may be an important co-factor in the disease.
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Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, B.C., Canada.
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D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001955:British Columbia; D002677:Chile; D005393:Fish Diseases; D007668:Kidney / Q000469:parasitology / Q000821:virology; D007952:Leukemia, Plasma Cell / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D016815:Microsporea / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012190:Retroviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012474:Salmon; D013154:Spleen / Q000469:parasitology / Q000821:virology; D014481:United States