Full-Genome Sequencing and Confirmation of the Causative Agent of Erythrocytic Inclusion Body Syndrome in Coho Salmon Identifies a New Type of Piscine Orthoreovirus.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Tomokazu Takano, Akatsuki Nawata, Takamitsu Sakai, Tomomasa Matsuyama, Takafumi Ito, Jun Kurita, Sachiko Terashima, Motoshige Yasuike, Yoji Nakamura, Atushi Fujiwara, Akira Kumagai, Chihaya Nakayasu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Lambda; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165424; https://doaj.org/article/70f125981a054d3db9cbb4d30a77ea37

Erythrocytic inclusion body syndrome (EIBS) causes mass mortality in farmed salmonid fish, including the coho salmon, Onchorhynchus kisutchi, and chinook salmon, O. tshawytscha. The causative agent of the disease is a virus with an icosahedral virion structure, but this virus has not been characteri...