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Kawato Y, Mizuno K, Harakawa S, Takada Y, Yoshihara Y, Kawakami H, Ito T. Risk assessment of wild fish as environmental sources of red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV) outbreaks in aquaculture. DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS 2024; 158:65-74. [PMID: 38661138 DOI: 10.3354/dao03788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV) causes substantial economic damage to aquaculture. In the present study, RSIV in wild fish near aquaculture installations was surveyed to evaluate the risk of wild fish being an infection source for RSIV outbreaks in cultured fish. In total, 1102 wild fish, consisting of 44 species, were captured from 2 aquaculture areas in western Japan using fishing, gill nets, and fishing baskets between 2019 and 2022. Eleven fish from 7 species were confirmed to harbor the RSIV genome using a probe-based real-time PCR assay. The mean viral load of the RSIV-positive wild fish was 101.1 ± 0.4 copies mg-1 DNA, which was significantly lower than that of seemingly healthy red sea bream Pagrus major in a net pen during an RSIV outbreak (103.3 ± 1.5 copies mg-1 DNA) that occurred in 2021. Sequencing analysis of a partial region of the major capsid protein gene demonstrated that the RSIV genome detected in the wild fish was identical to that of the diseased fish in a fish farm located in the same area in which the wild fish were captured. Based on the diagnostic records of RSIV in the sampled area, the RSIV-infected wild fish appeared during or after the RSIV outbreak in cultured fish, suggesting that RSIV detected in wild fish was derived from the RSIV outbreak in cultured fish. Therefore, wild fish populations near aquaculture installations may not be a significant risk factor for RSIV outbreaks in cultured fish.
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- Yasuhiko Kawato
- Pathology Division, Nansei Field Station, Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Mie 519-0193, Japan
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- Ehime Fisheries Research Center, Ehime 798-0087, Japan
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- Pathology Division, Nansei Field Station, Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Mie 519-0193, Japan
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- Pathology Division, Nansei Field Station, Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Mie 519-0193, Japan
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Yan WX, Tseng YH, Huang WR, Cheng LW, Wang PC, Chen SC. Nocardiosis and other common diseases of cultured golden pompano (Trachinotus blochii) in Taiwan. JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES 2024; 47:e13894. [PMID: 38014554 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.13894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2023] [Revised: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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Golden pompano (Trachinotus blochii) is a carnivorous teleost cultured in the Asia-Pacific region. Fish culture in high densities and numbers results in disease outbreaks, causing huge economic losses. Here, we collected cultured golden pompanos from 2021 to 2022 and identified the pathogens isolated from the diseased fish. Out of a total of 64 clinical cases observed in both sea cages and fish ponds, it was found that Nocardia seriolae was the predominant pathogen (26%), followed by Lactococcus garvieae (13%). Trichodina spp. was the most prevalent parasite in sea cages and earthen ponds (21%), while Neobenedenia spp. was the primary parasitic pathogen (16%) in sea cages. Given these findings, further investigations were conducted, including antibiotic susceptibility and pathogenicity tests specific to N. seriolae in golden pompanos. Antibiotic susceptibility tests of N. seriolae revealed that all strains were susceptible to doxycycline, oxytetracycline, florfenicol and erythromycin but resistant to amoxicillin and ampicillin. Additionally, a pathogenicity assessment was carried out by administering an intraperitoneal injection of 0.1 mL containing 107 CFU of N. seriolae per fish. The mortality rates observed varied between 40% and 90%, with the P2 strain exhibiting the highest level of virulence, resulting in a cumulative mortality of 90%. Therefore, disease outbreaks in fish can be minimized by developing effective treatments and prevention methods.
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- Wei-Xiao Yan
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
- International Degree Program of Ornamental Fish Technology and Aquatic Animal Health, International College, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
- Southern Taiwan Fish Diseases Research Centre, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
- Southern Taiwan Fish Diseases Research Centre, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
- Southern Taiwan Fish Diseases Research Centre, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
- Southern Taiwan Fish Diseases Research Centre, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
- International Degree Program of Ornamental Fish Technology and Aquatic Animal Health, International College, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
- Southern Taiwan Fish Diseases Research Centre, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
- Research Centre for Fish Vaccine and Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
- International Degree Program of Ornamental Fish Technology and Aquatic Animal Health, International College, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
- Southern Taiwan Fish Diseases Research Centre, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
- Research Centre for Fish Vaccine and Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
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Kawato Y, Takada Y, Mizuno K, Harakawa S, Yoshihara Y, Nakagawa Y, Kurobe T, Kawakami H, Ito T. Assessing the transmission risk of red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV) in environmental water: insights from fish farms and experimental settings. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0156723. [PMID: 37737592 PMCID: PMC10580957 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.01567-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/23/2023] Open
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Aquatic animal viruses are considered to be transmitted via environmental water between fish farms. This study aimed to understand the actual transmission risk of red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV) through environmental water among fish farms. An environmental DNA (eDNA) method using iron-based flocculation coupled with large-pore filtration was used to monitor RSIV DNA copies in seawater from fish farms and from an experimental infection model. RSIV dispersion in seawater from a net pen where the disease outbreak occurred was visualized by the inverse distance weighting method using multiple-sampling data sets from a fish farm. The analysis demonstrated that the center of the net pen had a high viral load, and RSIV seemed to be quickly diluted by the tidal current. To evaluate the transmission risk of RSIV in environmental water, the red sea bream Pagrus major (approximately 10 g) was exposed to RSIV-contained seawater (103, 104, 105, 106, and 107 copies/L) for 3 days, which mimicked field exposure. A probit analysis of the challenge test indicated that the inferred infection rates of seawater containing 105.9 copies/L and 103.1 copies/L of RSIV were 50% and 0.0001%, respectively. In the surveillance for 3 years at 10 fixed points (n = 306), there were only seven samples in which the viral load exceeded 104 copies/L in seawater. These results suggest that the transmission of RSIV among fish farms via seawater is highly associated with the distance between the net pens, and the environmental water is not always an infection source for the transmission of RSIV between fish farms. IMPORTANCE Our surveillance of viral loads for red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV) by monitoring environmental DNA in fish farms suggested that the viral loads in the seawater were low, except for the net pens where RSIV outbreaks occurred. Furthermore, our experimental infection model indicated that the infection risk of RSIV-contained seawater with less than 103 copies/L was extremely low. The limited risk of environmental water for transmission of RSIV gives an insight that RSIV could be partly transmitted between fish farms due to the movement of equipment and/or humans from the fish farm where the disease outbreaks. Since our data suggest that seawater can function as a potential wall to reduce the transmission of RSIV, biosecurity management, such as disinfection of equipment associated with fish farms could be effective, even in the semi-open system aquaculture that the environmental water can be freely transferred, to reduce the risk of RSIV outbreaks.
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- Yasuhiko Kawato
- Pathology Division, Nansei Field Station, Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Mie, Japan
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- Pathology Division, Nansei Field Station, Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Mie, Japan
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- Pathology Division, Tamaki Field Station, Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Mie, Japan
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- Pathology Division, Nansei Field Station, Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Mie, Japan
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- Pathology Division, Nansei Field Station, Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Mie, Japan
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Fu W, Li Y, Fu Y, Zhang W, Luo P, Sun Q, Yu F, Weng S, Li W, He J, Dong C. The Inactivated ISKNV-I Vaccine Confers Highly Effective Cross-Protection against Epidemic RSIV-I and RSIV-II from Cultured Spotted Sea Bass Lateolabrax maculatus. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0449522. [PMID: 37222626 PMCID: PMC10269448 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.04495-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023] Open
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The genus Megalocytivirus of the family Iridoviridae is composed of two distinct species, namely, infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) and scale drop disease virus (SDDV), and both are important causative agents in a variety of bony fish worldwide. Of them, the ISKNV species is subdivided into three genotypes, namely, red seabream iridovirus (RSIV), ISKNV, and turbot reddish body iridovirus (TRBIV), and a further six subgenotypes, RSIV-I, RSIV-II, ISKNV-I, ISKNV-II, TRBIV-I, and TRBIV-II. Commercial vaccines derived from RSIV-I , RSIV-II and ISKNV-I have been available to several fish species. However, studies regarding the cross-protection effect among different genotype or subgenotype isolates have not been fully elucidated. In this study, RSIV-I and RSIV-II were demonstrated as the causative agents in cultured spotted seabass, Lateolabrax maculatus, through serial robust evidence, including cell culture-based viral isolation, whole-genome determination and phylogeny analysis, artificial challenge, histopathology, immunohistochemistry, and immunofluorescence as well as transmission electron microscope observation. Thereafter, a formalin-killed cell (FKC) vaccine generated from an ISKNV-I isolate was prepared to evaluate the protective effects against two spotted seabass original RSIV-I and RSIV-II. The result showed that the ISKNV-I-based FKC vaccine conferred almost complete cross-protection against RSIV-I and RSIV-II as well as ISKNV-I itself. No serotype difference was observed among RSIV-I, RSIV-II, and ISKNV-I. Additionally, the mandarin fish Siniperca chuatsi is proposed as an ideal infection and vaccination fish species for the study of various megalocytiviral isolates. IMPORTANCE Red seabream iridovirus (RSIV) infects a wide mariculture bony fish and has resulted in significant annual economic loss worldwide. Previous studies showed that the phenotypic diversity of infectious RSIV isolates would lead to different virulence characteristics, viral antigenicity, and vaccine efficacy as well as host range. Importantly, it is still doubted whether a universal vaccine could confer the same highly protective effect against various genotypic isolates. Our study here presented enough experimental evidence that a water in oil (w/o) formation of inactivated ISKNV-I vaccine could confer almost complete protection against RSIV-I and RSIV-II as well as ISKNV-I itself. Our study provides valuable data for better understanding the differential infection and immunity among different genotypes of ISKNV and RSIV isolates in the genus Megalocytivirus.
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- Weixuan Fu
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol (Guangzhou, SYSU)/Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai, SMST-GDL), School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
- Institute of Aquatic Economic Animals and Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Aquatic Economic Animals, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
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- Zhuhai Modern Agriculture Development Center, Zhuhai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol (Guangzhou, SYSU)/Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai, SMST-GDL), School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
- Institute of Aquatic Economic Animals and Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Aquatic Economic Animals, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol (Guangzhou, SYSU)/Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai, SMST-GDL), School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
- Institute of Aquatic Economic Animals and Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Aquatic Economic Animals, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol (Guangzhou, SYSU)/Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai, SMST-GDL), School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol (Guangzhou, SYSU)/Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai, SMST-GDL), School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
- Institute of Aquatic Economic Animals and Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Aquatic Economic Animals, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
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- Zhuhai Modern Agriculture Development Center, Zhuhai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol (Guangzhou, SYSU)/Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai, SMST-GDL), School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
- Institute of Aquatic Economic Animals and Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Aquatic Economic Animals, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
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- Zhuhai Modern Agriculture Development Center, Zhuhai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol (Guangzhou, SYSU)/Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai, SMST-GDL), School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
- Institute of Aquatic Economic Animals and Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Aquatic Economic Animals, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol (Guangzhou, SYSU)/Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai, SMST-GDL), School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
- Institute of Aquatic Economic Animals and Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Aquatic Economic Animals, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
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Koda SA, Subramaniam K, Groff JM, Yanong RP, Pouder DB, Pedersen M, Pelton C, Garner MM, Phelps NBD, Armien AG, Hyatt MW, Hick PM, Becker JA, Stidworthy MF, Waltzek TB. Genetic characterization of infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus in Banggai cardinalfish Pterapogon kauderni identified from eight separate cases between 2000 and 2017. JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES 2023. [PMID: 37057714 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.13788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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- Samantha A Koda
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Retired, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA
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- Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Ruskin, Florida, USA
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- Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Ruskin, Florida, USA
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- Reef to Rainforest Media, LLC, Shelburne, Vermont, USA
- MiniWaters LLC, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
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- Sea Life Aquarium, Orlando, Florida, USA
- OdySea Aquarium, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, California, USA
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- The University of Sydney, School of Veterinary Science, Camden, New South Wales, Australia
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- The University of Sydney, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Camden, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Sea Life Aquarium, Orlando, Florida, USA
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Red sea bream iridoviral disease (RSIVD) causes high economic damage in mariculture in Asian countries. However, there is little information on the source of infection and viral dynamics in fish farms. In the present study, the dynamics of RSIV in a fish farm that mainly reared juveniles and broodstocks of red sea bream (Pagrus major) were monitored over 3 years (2016 to 2018) by targeting environmental DNA (eDNA) of seawater. Our monitoring demonstrated that red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV) was detected from the eDNA at least 5 days before an RSIVD outbreak in the juveniles. The viral loads of eDNA during the outbreak were highly associated with the numbers for daily mortality, and they reached a peak of 106 copies/liter seawater in late July in 2017, when daily mortality exceeded 20,000 fish. In contrast, neither clinical signs nor mortality was observed in the broodstocks during the monitoring periods, whereas the broodstocks were confirmed to be virus carriers by an inspection in October 2017. Interestingly, the viral load of eDNA in the broodstock net pens (105 copies/liter seawater) was higher than that in the juvenile net pens (104 copies/liter seawater) just before the RSIVD outbreak in late June 2017. After elimination of all RSIV-infected surviving juveniles and 90% of broodstocks, few RSIV copies were detected in the eDNA in the fish farm from April 2018 onward (fewer than 102 copies/liter seawater). These results imply that the virus shed from the asymptomatically RSIV-infected broodstock was transmitted horizontally to the juveniles and caused further RSIVD outbreaks in the fish farm. IMPORTANCE Environmental DNA (eDNA) could be applied in monitoring waterborne viruses of aquatic animals. However, there are few data for practical application of eDNA in fish farms for the control of disease outbreaks. The results of our field research over 3 years targeting eDNA in a red sea bream (Pagrus major) fish farm implied that red sea bream iridoviral disease (RSIVD) outbreaks in juveniles originated from virus shedding from asymptomatically virus-infected broodstocks. Our work identifies an infection source of RSIVD in a fish farm via eDNA monitoring, and it could be applied as a tool for application in aquaculture to control fish diseases.
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Koda SA, Subramaniam K, Pouder DB, Yanong RP, Waltzek TB. Phylogenomic characterization of red seabream iridovirus from Florida pompano Trachinotus carolinus maricultured in the Caribbean Sea. Arch Virol 2019; 164:1209-1212. [PMID: 30741339 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-019-04155-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 12/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Between 2010 and 2016, six mortality events were observed in Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus) maricultured in the Dominican Republic. Histopathological examination and conventional PCR confirmed a megalocytivirus (MCV) infection in each case. Subsequently, next-generation sequencing and phylogenomic analyses confirmed that MCV DNA was present in the infected pompano tissue samples from 2010, 2014, and 2016, and each was determined to be red seabream iridovirus (RSIV). Annotation of the RSIV genome sequences identified 121 open reading frames, and BLASTN analysis revealed the highest nucleotide sequence identity (> 99%) to a RSIV clade 1 MCV isolated from a moribund red seabream (Pagrus major) maricultured in Japan. These cases represent the first fully sequenced RSIV genomes detected outside of Asia and are the earliest reports of MCV infections in Florida pompano. This recent geographical expansion of RSIV warrants further attention to determine its potential economic and ecological impact.
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- Samantha A Koda
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Bldg. 1379, Mowry Road, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Bldg. 1379, Mowry Road, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Ruskin, FL, 33570, USA
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- Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Ruskin, FL, 33570, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Bldg. 1379, Mowry Road, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
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