Characterization of a Novel Picornavirus Isolate from a Diseased European Eel (Anguilla anguilla)

• Published in: Journal of Virology
• Main Authors: Fichtner, Dieter, Philipps, A., Groth, M., Schmidt-Posthaus, H., Granzow, Harald, Dauber, Malte, Platzer, M., Bergmann, Sven, Schrudde, D., Sauerbrei, A., Zell, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: article; Text; ddc:570; Anguilla anguilla; European eel
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01094-13; https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00002464; https://www.openagrar.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/Document_derivate_00002439/SD2013249.pdf; http://jvi.asm.org/content/87/19/10895.long; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807381/

A novel picornavirus was isolated from specimens of a diseased European eel (Anguilla anguilla). This virus induced a cytopathic effect in eel embryonic kidney cells and high mortality in a controlled transmission study using elvers. Eel picornavirus has a genome of 7,496 nucleotides that encodes a polyprotein of 2,259 amino acids. It has a typical picornavirus genome layout, but its low similarity to known viral proteins suggests a novel species in the family Picornaviridae.