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: Takano, Tomokazu, Nawata, Akatsuki, Sakai, Takamitsu, Matsuyama, Tomomasa, Ito, Takafumi, Kurita, Jun, Terashima, Sachiko, Yasuike, Motoshige, Nakamura, Yoji, Fujiwara, Atushi, Kumagai, Akira, Nakayasu, Chihaya
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2016
• Subjects: Salmon; Reovirus; Polymerase chain reaction; Fish culture; Erythrocytes; RNA; Phylogenetics; Lambda; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10862/3433; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165424; https://repository.seafdec.org.ph/bitstream/10862/3433/3/3433-TakanoT2016.pdf.jpg

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...