Experimental transmission of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus from the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, to cohabitating Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) smolts.

ABSTRACT: Integrated multitrophic aquaculture (IMTA) reduces the environmental impacts of commercial aquaculture systems by combining the cultivation of fed species with extractive species. Shellfish play a critical role in IMTA systems by filter-feeding particulate-bound organic nutrients. As bioaccumulating organisms, shellfish may also increase disease risk on farms by serving as reservoirs for important finfish pathogens such as infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV). The ability of the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) to bioaccumulate and transmit IPNV to naive Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts was investigated. To determine the ability of mussels to filter and accumulate viable IPNV, mussels were held in water containing log 4.6 50% tissue culture infective dose(s) (TCID50) of the West Bux

SUBMITTER: Molloy SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3811390 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature