Transcriptome analyses of Atlantic salmon muscle genes induced by a DNA vaccine against salmonid alphavirus, the causative agent of salmon pancreas disease (PD).

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Mehrdad Sobhkhez, Aleksei Krasnov, Børre Robertsen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Sav’; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204924; https://doaj.org/article/8ee0c87ea99047118fbb10382bf0c5f0

Salmonid alphavirus (SAV) is the causative agent of pancreas disease (PD) in farmed Atlantic salmon. A previous study showed that vaccination of pre-smolt salmon with a plasmid encoding the structural polypeptide of SAV gave protection against infection and development of PD accompanied by productio...