PMID- 26945849 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20171128 LR - 20171218 IS - 1872-7492 (Electronic) IS - 0168-1702 (Linking) VI - 217 DP - 2016 Jun 2 TI - Experimental infection of European flat oyster Ostrea edulis with ostreid herpesvirus 1 microvar (OsHV-1muvar): Mortality, viral load and detection of viral transcripts by in situ hybridization. PG - 55-62 LID - S0168-1702(16)30073-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2016.01.023 [doi] AB - Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) infections have been reported in several bivalve species. Mortality of Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas spat has increased considerably in Europe since 2008 linked to the spread of a variant of OsHV-1 called muvar. In the present study we demonstrated that O. edulis juveniles can be infected by OsHV-1muvar when administered as an intramuscular injection. Mortality in the oysters injected with OsHV-1muvar was first detected 4 days after injection and reached 25% mortality at day 10. Moreover, the high viral load observed and the detection of viral transcripts by in situ hybridization in several tissues of dying oysters suggested that OsHV-1muvar was the cause of mortality in the O. edulis juveniles. This is therefore the first study to provide evidence about the pathogenicity of OsHV-1muvar in a species that does not belong to the Crassostrea genus. Additionally, we present a novel method to detect OsHV-1 transcripts in infected individuals' using in situ hybridization. CI - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Lopez Sanmartin, Monserrat AU - Lopez Sanmartin M AD - Instituto de Investigacion y Formacion Agraria y Pesquera (IFAPA), Centro Agua del Pino, Junta de Andalucia, Ctra. El Rompido-Punta Umbria, km 4, 21459 Cartaya, Spain. Electronic address: monserratls@yahoo.es. FAU - Power, Deborah M AU - Power DM AD - Centro de Ciencias do Mar (CCMAR), Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal. FAU - de la Herran, Roberto AU - de la Herran R AD - Departamento de Genetica de la Universidad de Granada, Spain. FAU - Navas, Jose I AU - Navas JI AD - Instituto de Investigacion y Formacion Agraria y Pesquera (IFAPA), Centro Agua del Pino, Junta de Andalucia, Ctra. El Rompido-Punta Umbria, km 4, 21459 Cartaya, Spain. FAU - Batista, Frederico M AU - Batista FM AD - Centro de Ciencias do Mar (CCMAR), Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal; Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera, Divisao de Aquicultura e Valorizacao, Estacao Experimental de Moluscicultura de Tavira, Av. 5 de Outubro, 8700-305 Olhao, Portugal. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20160303 PL - Netherlands TA - Virus Res JT - Virus research JID - 8410979 RN - 0 (DNA, Viral) RN - 0 (RNA, Viral) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - DNA, Viral MH - Herpesviridae/*pathogenicity/ultrastructure MH - In Situ Hybridization MH - Ostrea/*virology MH - RNA, Viral/analysis MH - Transcription, Genetic MH - Viral Load OTO - NOTNLM OT - ISH OT - Microvar OT - OsHV-1 OT - Ostrea edulis OT - Ostreid herpesvirus 1 OT - RNA EDAT- 2016/03/08 06:00 MHDA- 2017/11/29 06:00 CRDT- 2016/03/07 06:00 PHST- 2016/01/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/01/29 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/03/07 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/03/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/11/29 06:00 [medline] AID - S0168-1702(16)30073-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2016.01.023 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Virus Res. 2016 Jun 2;217:55-62. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2016.01.023. Epub 2016 Mar 3.