Artificial Transmission to and Susceptibility of Puget Sound Fish to Viral Erythrocytic Necrosis (VEN)

In Puget Sound, Wash., the incidence of viral erythrocytic necrosis (VEN) varied geographically from 0 to 17% in chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) and from 4 to 59% in Pacific herring (Clupea harengus pallasi). The disease was experimentally transmitted by intraperitoneal injection to chum, pink (O. g...

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Published in:Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
Main Authors: MacMillan, John R., Mulcahy, Dan
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1979
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f79-153
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