Persistence of cyprinid herpesvirus 2 in asymptomatic goldfish Carassius auratus (L.) that survived an experimental infection
Autor: | Mikio Tanaka, Motohiko Sano, Chang Wei, Hayato Iida, QiuYuan Chuah, Goshi Kato |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
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Necrosis viruses Veterinary (miscellaneous) Spleen Aquatic Science Kidney Asymptomatic Polymerase Chain Reaction Virus Microbiology Fish Diseases Goldfish medicine Animals Incubation Asymptomatic Infections Herpesviridae Prussian carp biology Temperature Herpesviridae Infections Viral Load biology.organism_classification medicine.anatomical_structure DNA Viral medicine.symptom |
Zdroj: | Journal of fish diseases. 42(6) |
ISSN: | 1365-2761 |
Popis: | Cyprinid herpesvirus 2 (CyHV-2) is the causative agent of herpesviral haematopoietic necrosis (HVHN) in goldfish, Carassius auratus, and Prussian carp, C. auratus gibelio. In this study, we investigated virus persistence in goldfish experimentally infected with CyHV-2. Virus DNA presence in organs was monitored in survivors reared at a virus permissive temperature and also in survivors treated with a non-permissive temperature for 4 days, initiated at three different time points post-infection in order to obtain fish with different virus loads. We detected virus DNA in all organs tested at 51 days post-infection (dpi) and in the spleen, trunk kidney and gills of survivors at 81 dpi, although the virus load in fish influenced the subsequent number of organs that tested positive for virus DNA. In addition, some organs dissected from four out of five asymptomatic survivors tested positive by PCR following incubation in vitro in a medium for 5 days. Following inoculation with the homogenate of PCR-positive kidney incubated in vitro, one of the three inoculated fish died, showing that the detected virus by PCR produced infectious particles. This study suggests that CyHV-2 can establish a persistent infection in some organs, especially the spleen and trunk kidney, and that asymptomatic surviving fish can be a source of infection. |
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