White spot syndrome virus epizootic in cultured Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone) in Taiwan
| Autor: | Hsu Jp, Li-Wu Cheng, Ming-An Tsai, Lin Wh, Pei-Chyi Wang, Shih-Chu Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Veterinary medicine animal structures Penaeidae Genes Viral animal diseases Veterinary (miscellaneous) White spot syndrome Litopenaeus Hepatopancreas Aquaculture Aquatic Science Shrimp farming Copepoda White spot syndrome virus 1 Microscopy Electron Transmission Crustacea Sequence Homology Nucleic Acid Prevalence Animals Phylogeny biology business.industry fungi biology.organism_classification Thailand Virology Crustacean Shrimp business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of fish diseases. 36(12) |
| ISSN: | 1365-2761 |
| Popis: | White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) has caused significant losses in shrimp farms worldwide. Between 2004 and 2006, Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone) were collected from 220 farms in Taiwan to determine the prevalence and impact of WSSV infection on the shrimp farm industry. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis detected WSSV in shrimp from 26% of farms. Juvenile shrimp farms had the highest infection levels (38%; 19/50 farms) and brooder shrimp farms had the lowest (5%; one of 20 farms). The average extent of infection at each farm was as follows for WSSV-positive farms: post-larvae farms, 71%; juvenile farms, 61%; subadult farms, 62%; adult farms, 49%; and brooder farms, 40%. Characteristic white spots, hypertrophied nuclei and basophilic viral inclusion bodies were found in the epithelia of gills and tail fans, appendages, cephalothorax and hepatopancreas, and virions of WSSV were observed. Of shrimp that had WSSV lesions, 100% had lesions on the cephalothorax, 96% in gills and tail fans, 91% on appendages and 17% in the hepatopancreas. WSSV was also detected in copepoda and crustaceans from the shrimp farms. Sequence comparison using the pms146 gene fragment of WSSV showed that isolates from the farms had 99.7-100% nucleotide sequence identity with four strains in the GenBank database--China (AF332093), Taiwan (AF440570 and U50923) and Thailand (AF369029). This is the first broad study of WSSV infection in L. vannamei in Taiwan. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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