Detection of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) from the environment in the vicinity of IPNV-infected Atlantic salmon farms in Scotland.
Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) has been isolated from mussels, sediment and surface water in the vicinity of clinically infected salmon farms, at shore bases supplying the farms and for several hundred metres distance from farms in the direction of current flow. There was evidence of decreasing prevalence of IPNV in mussels from Shetland once IPN outbreaks subsided, indicating they are an unlikely source of re-infection on farms. There was little evidence of persistence in the environment, although conclusions were complicated by the presence of IPNV on neighbouring farms 1 year after the outbreak.
Gregory
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FRS Marine Laboratory, Victoria Road, Aberdeen, UK. gregorya@marlab.ac.uk
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Wallace
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Bain
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Raynard
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D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D018175:Birnaviridae Infections / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D002460:Cell Line; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000821:virology*; D005398:Fisheries; D019015:Geologic Sediments / Q000821:virology; D018061:Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D049880:Mytilus edulis / Q000821:virology; D020317:Salmo salar; D012606:Scotland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012623:Seawater / Q000821:virology; D013997:Time Factors; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins / Q000235:genetics
C509831:VP2 protein, infectious pancreatic necrosis virus; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins