PMID- 24834660
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140605
LR  - 20140519
IS  - 0020-2509 (Print)
IS  - 0020-2509 (Linking)
VI  - 89
IP  - 1-4
DP  - 2012
TI  - Absence of viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) and infectious hemorrhagic 
      necrosis virus (INHV) in a Tunisian fish farm: a case study.
PG  - 39-45
AB  - Beyond the obvious problems related to the sustainable management of wild stocks, 
      current fish farming practices in the Mediterranean area entail important 
      environmental risks and potential outbreaks of fish diseases linked to massive 
      translocations across regional boundaries. Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS) 
      and infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) are well-known fish diseases caused 
      by the VHSV and IHNV viruses, and positive cases are subject to obligatory 
      reporting to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). In August 2004, the 
      OIE published the first record of a VHS outbreak in a sea bass (Dicentrarchus 
      labrax) aquaculture facility on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. However, D. 
      labrax is not considered as a susceptible host species for viral hemorrhagic 
      septicaemia according to OIE's International Aquatic Animal Health Code (2009) 
      and VHSV was not previously reported in the Mediterranean. In this sense and 
      given the high risk of disease translocation associated with farmed fish in 
      marine aquaculture, the present study was aimed at investigating the presence of 
      VHSV and IHNV in stocks of sea bass and sea bream (Sparus aurata) reared inside a 
      Tunisian coastal fish farm. Cell culture, IFAT and RT-PCR were applied to screen 
      for both VHSV and IHNV in 69 pooled samples of sea bass and 24 pooled samples of 
      sea bream. All three techniques showed the absence of both viruses within fish at 
      the selected site.
FAU - Cherif, N
AU  - Cherif N
FAU - Hammami, S
AU  - Hammami S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Tunisia
TA  - Arch Inst Pasteur Tunis
JT  - Archives de l'Institut Pasteur de Tunis
JID - 7502527
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - *Bass
MH  - *Fisheries
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus
MH  - Novirhabdovirus
MH  - Rhabdoviridae Infections
MH  - *Sea Bream
MH  - Tunisia
EDAT- 2012/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 2014/06/06 06:00
CRDT- 2014/05/20 06:00
PHST- 2014/05/20 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/06/06 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Arch Inst Pasteur Tunis. 2012;89(1-4):39-45.