title: A study of the susceptibility of Atlantic halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus (L.), to viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus isolated from turbot, Scophthalmus maximus (L.).
abstract: The susceptibility of Atlantic halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus (L.), to viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus (VHSV) was tested. Juvenile halibut of approximately 5 g weight were subjected to challenge by intraperitoneal injection, cohabitation and immersion to a VHSV isolate from an outbreak of the disease in turbot, Scophthalmus maximus (L.). The intraperitoneal injection gave the highest mortality rate of 28% after 50 days. The cohabitee group suffered 19% mortality rate and the immersion group only 2%. Control groups included turbot exposed either by intraperitoneal injection or immersion which suffered mortality rates of 93 and 50%, respectively. The results suggest that halibut are markedly less susceptible to VHSV than turbot.
authors.affiliation: FRS Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, UK. t.j.bowden@marlab.ac.uk
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Bowden
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D001921:Brain / Q000821:virology; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003588:Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary; D004198:Disease Susceptibility / Q000662:veterinary / Q000821:virology; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / Q000662:veterinary; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology* / Q000635:transmission / Q000821:virology; D005412:Flatfishes; D005432:Flounder; D029141:Novirhabdovirus / Q000276:immunology* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012044:Regression Analysis; D018353:Rhabdoviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*; D012606:Scotland / Q000453:epidemiology; D014781:Viscera / Q000821:virology
chemical_list: D000956:Antigens, Viral