title: Characterization of a novel picornavirus isolate from a diseased European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
abstract: A novel picornavirus was isolated from specimens of a diseased European eel (Anguilla anguilla). This virus induced a cytopathic effect in eel embryonic kidney cells and high mortality in a controlled transmission study using elvers. Eel picornavirus has a genome of 7,496 nucleotides that encodes a polyprotein of 2,259 amino acids. It has a typical picornavirus genome layout, but its low similarity to known viral proteins suggests a novel species in the family Picornaviridae.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Infectology, Friedrich Loeffler Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fichtner
authors.forename: Anja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Philipps
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Groth
authors.forename: Heike
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schmidt-Posthaus
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Granzow
authors.forename: Malte
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dauber
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Platzer
authors.forename: Sven M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Bergmann
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schrudde
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sauerbrei
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zell
mesh_terms: D000811:Anguilla / Q000235:genetics / Q000821:virology*; D000818:Animals; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D016679:Genome, Viral; D010802:Phylogeny; D010849:Picornaviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D014764:Viral Proteins