Descriptive multi-agent epidemiology via molecular screening on Atlantic salmon farms in the northeast Pacific Ocean

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Bateman, Andrew W., Schulze, Angela D., Kaukinen, Karia H., Tabata, Amy, Mordecai, Gideon, Flynn, Kelsey, Bass, Arthur, Di Cicco, Emiliano, Miller, Kristina M.
• Other Authors: Pacific Salmon Foundation, Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Liber Ero Foundation, Canada, Genome British Columbia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: Multidisciplinary; British Columbia; Canada; Pacific; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78978-9; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-78978-9.pdf; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-78978-9

Abstract Rapid expansion of salmon aquaculture has resulted in high-density populations that host diverse infectious agents, for which surveillance and monitoring are critical to disease management. Screening can reveal infection diversity from which disease arises, differential patterns of infectio...