First report of erythrocytic inclusion body syndrome (EIBS) in chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha in Alaska, USA.
Juvenile seawater-reared chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha at a hatchery on Baranoff Island, Alaska, USA, sustained chronic mortality associated with anemia and mixed infections by various obligate and opportunistic pathogens including a cytoplasmic erythrocytic virus resembling the agent of erythrocytic inclusion body syndrome (EIBS). This is the first case report of EIBS in Alaska and is a range extension of the disease.
Meyers
Theodore R
TR
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Commercial Fisheries Division, Juneau Fish Pathology Laboratory, PO Box 25526, Juneau, Alaska 99802-5526, USA. ted_meyers@fishgame.state.ak.us
D000413:Alaska / Q000453:epidemiology; D000818:Animals; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*; D007181:Inclusion Bodies, Viral / Q000502:physiology* / Q000821:virology; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission / Q000662:veterinary; D015995:Prevalence; D012474:Salmon / Q000821:virology*; D013577:Syndrome; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014780:Viruses / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity* / Q000648:ultrastructure