PMID- 30779211 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190502 LR - 20200930 IS - 1365-2761 (Electronic) IS - 0140-7775 (Linking) VI - 42 IP - 4 DP - 2019 Apr TI - Improvement of a diagnostic procedure in surveillance of the listed fish diseases IHN and VHS. PG - 559-572 LID - 10.1111/jfd.12968 [doi] AB - Infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN) and viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS) are OIE-listed and notifiable viral fish diseases which are controlled by eradication and surveillance programmes globally. The present study provides improved RT-qPCR procedures based on recently described OIE protocols. Improvements comprise the design of a new TaqMan(R) probe, replacing a TaqMan(R) MGB probe that turned out to show impaired binding. Reason for this is SNPs detected in the nucleoprotein N gene sequences of IHNV strains targeted by the RT-qPCR. Furthermore, the IHNV and VHSV RT-qPCR assays were realized as one-step and one-run procedures supplemented by an endogenous control system. The IHNV and VHSV RT-qPCR assays are characterized by a technical sensitivity of 19 and 190 gene equivalents (cRNA) and an analytical sensitivity of 2-7 and 13 TCID(50) /ml, respectively. For verification purposes, 105 IHNV and 165 VHSV isolates and several non-targeted viral and bacterial pathogens were included and returned adequate results. However, in field samples divergent results left 14 samples of 154 undetected for IHNV and one sample of 127 for VHSV using cell culture. The study shows that RT-qPCR assays ensure facilitated and reliable testing on IHNV and VHSV in eradication and surveillance programmes. CI - (c) 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. FAU - Hoferer, Marc AU - Hoferer M AD - Chemisches und Veterinaruntersuchungsamt Stuttgart (Chemical and Veterinary Investigations Office Stuttgart), Fellbach, Germany. FAU - Akimkin, Valerij AU - Akimkin V AD - Chemisches und Veterinaruntersuchungsamt Stuttgart (Chemical and Veterinary Investigations Office Stuttgart), Fellbach, Germany. FAU - Skrypski, Julia AU - Skrypski J AD - Chemisches und Veterinaruntersuchungsamt Stuttgart (Chemical and Veterinary Investigations Office Stuttgart), Fellbach, Germany. FAU - Schutze, Heike AU - Schutze H AD - Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Infectology, Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany. FAU - Sting, Reinhard AU - Sting R AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1437-5036 AD - Chemisches und Veterinaruntersuchungsamt Stuttgart (Chemical and Veterinary Investigations Office Stuttgart), Fellbach, Germany. LA - eng SI - GENBANK/MK241784 SI - GENBANK/MK234583 SI - GENBANK/MK234584 SI - GENBANK/MK234585 SI - GENBANK/MK234586 SI - GENBANK/AY331657 SI - GENBANK/X89213 SI - GENBANK/L40882 SI - GENBANK/L40883 SI - GENBANK/NC001652 SI - GENBANK/L40880 SI - GENBANK/U15170 SI - GENBANK/L40881 SI - GENBANK/X73873 SI - GENBANK/AF343572 SI - GENBANK/Y18263 SI - GENBANK/KF783182 PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190219 PL - England TA - J Fish Dis JT - Journal of fish diseases JID - 9881188 RN - 0 (Nucleoproteins) RN - 0 (Viral Proteins) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Epidemiological Monitoring/*veterinary MH - Fish Diseases/*diagnosis/epidemiology/virology MH - Fishes/virology MH - Hemorrhagic Septicemia, Viral/*diagnosis/epidemiology MH - Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus/genetics MH - Novirhabdovirus/genetics MH - Nucleoproteins/genetics MH - Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction/*methods MH - Rhabdoviridae Infections/diagnosis/epidemiology/*veterinary MH - Sensitivity and Specificity MH - Viral Proteins/genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - RT-qPCR OT - diagnostic validation OT - endogenous control system OT - field validation OT - infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus OT - viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus EDAT- 2019/02/20 06:00 MHDA- 2019/05/03 06:00 CRDT- 2019/02/20 06:00 PHST- 2018/08/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/12/19 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/12/20 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/02/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/05/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/02/20 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1111/jfd.12968 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Fish Dis. 2019 Apr;42(4):559-572. doi: 10.1111/jfd.12968. Epub 2019 Feb 19.