Detection of salmonid alphavirus rna in celtic and irish sea flatfish

• Main Authors: McCleary, S, Giltrap, M, Henshilwood, K, Ruane, NM
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Inter-Research Science Center 2014
• Subjects: sav; pancreas disease; wild fish; horizontal transmission; atlantic salmon; aquaculture; farmed atlantic salmon; pancreas disease virus; wild marine fish; salar l; molecular epidemiology; nucleotide-sequences; north-atlantic; ireland; waters; Sav’; Atlantic salmon; North Atlantic; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10379/12730; https://doi.org/10.13025/26354; https://doi.org/10.3354/dao02719

Pancreas disease (PD) caused by the salmonid alphavirus (SAV) has been the most significant cause of mortalities in Irish farmed salmon Salmo salar L. over the past decade. SAV is a single-strand positive-sense RNA virus, originally thought to be unique to salmonids, but has recently been detected u...