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SUBMITTER: Kulshreshtha V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3003268 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Virology journal 20101123
<h4>Background</h4>Infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus (ISAV) is a pathogen of marine-farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar); a disease first diagnosed in Norway in 1984. This virus, which was first characterized following its isolation in cell culture in 1995, belongs to the family Orthomyxoviridae, genus, Isavirus. The Isavirus genome consists of eight single-stranded RNA segments of negative sense, each with one to three open reading frames flanked by 3' and 5' non-coding regions (NCRs). Altho ...[more]