Characterization of a novel picornavirus isolate from a diseased European eel (Anguilla anguilla)

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...

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Published in:Journal of Virology
Main Authors: Fichtner, Dieter, Philipps, Anja, Groth, Marco, Schmidt-Posthaus, Heike, Dauber, Malte, Platzer, Matthias, Sauerbrei, Andreas, Zell, Roland, Granzow, Harald, Bergmann, Sven M., Schrudde, Daniela
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2013
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Online Access:https://boris.unibe.ch/39220/1/10895.full.pdf
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Summary: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.