No influence of oxygen levels on pathogenesis and virus shedding in Salmonid alphavirus (SAV)-challenged Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.)

• Published in: Virology journal Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 198
• Main Authors: Andersen, Linda, Hodneland, Kjartan, Nylund, Are
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central 21.08.2010; BioMed Central Ltd; BMC
• Subjects: Alphavirus; Alphavirus - isolation & purification; Alphavirus Infections - mortality; Alphavirus Infections - pathology; Alphavirus Infections - veterinary; Alphavirus Infections - virology; Animals; Aquaculture; Fish; fish communities; Fish Diseases - mortality; Fish Diseases - pathology; Fish Diseases - virology; Gills - virology; heart; Heart - virology; Histocytochemistry; histopathology; Hypoxia; industry; Marine; Mortality; muscles; Myocardium - pathology; oxygen; Oxygen - metabolism; pancreas; Pancreas - pathology; pancreas disease; pathogenesis; RNA; Salmo salar; Salmo salar - virology; salmon; Salmonid alphavirus; Severity of Illness Index; Trout; viremia; Virus Shedding; viruses; Water - chemistry
• ISSN: 1743-422X; 1743-422X
• DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-7-198

For more than three decades, diseases caused by salmonid alphaviruses (SAV) have become a major problem of increasing economic importance in the European fish-farming industry. However, experimental infection trials with SAV result in low or no mortality i.e very different from most field outbreaks...