Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation of farmed salmon is associated with infection with a novel reovirus.

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) mariculture has been associated with epidemics of infectious diseases that threaten not only local production, but also wild fish coming into close proximity to marine pens and fish escaping from them. Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) is a frequently fat...

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Main Authors: Gustavo Palacios, Marie Lovoll, Torstein Tengs, Mady Hornig, Stephen Hutchison, Jeffrey Hui, Ruth-Torill Kongtorp, Nazir Savji, Ana V Bussetti, Alexander Solovyov, Anja B Kristoffersen, Christopher Celone, Craig Street, Vladimir Trifonov, David L Hirschberg, Raul Rabadan, Michael Egholm, Espen Rimstad, W Ian Lipkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2901333?pdf=render