title: First detection of piscine reovirus (PRV) in marine fish species.
abstract: Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) is a disease that affects farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. several months after the fish have been transferred to seawater. Recently, a new virus called piscine reovirus (PRV) was identified in Atlantic salmon from an outbreak of HSMI and in experimentally challenged fish. PRV is associated with the development of HSMI, and has until now only been detected in Atlantic salmon. This study investigates whether the virus is also present in wild fish populations that may serve as vectors for the virus. The virus was found in few of the analyzed samples so there is probably a more complex relationship that involves several carriers and virus -reservoirs.
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Veterinary Institute, PO Box 750 Sentrum, 0106 Oslo, Norway. christer.nielsen@vetinst.no
authors.forename: Christer R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Wiik-Nielsen
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Løvoll
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sandlund
authors.forename: Randi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Faller
authors.forename: Jannicke
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wiik-Nielsen
authors.forename: Britt
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bang Jensen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*; D009659:North Sea / Q000453:epidemiology; D009664:Norway; D012087:Reoviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012088:Reoviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D020317:Salmo salar