Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) disease diagnosed on a British Columbia salmon farm through a longitudinal farm study.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Emiliano Di Cicco, Hugh W Ferguson, Angela D Schulze, Karia H Kaukinen, Shaorong Li, Raphaël Vanderstichel, Øystein Wessel, Espen Rimstad, Ian A Gardner, K Larry Hammell, Kristina M Miller
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Canada; Norway; British Columbia; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171471; https://doaj.org/article/d592d4a177344a37a7d0770f33181daf

Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) is an emerging disease of marine-farmed Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), first recognized in 1999 in Norway, and later also reported in Scotland and Chile. We undertook a longitudinal study involving health evaluation over an entire marine production cycle...