PMID- 37839558 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20231216 LR - 20240520 IS - 1872-7492 (Electronic) IS - 0168-1702 (Print) IS - 0168-1702 (Linking) VI - 339 DP - 2024 Jan 2 TI - Ostreid herpesvirus 1 latent infection and reactivation in adult Pacific oysters, Crassostrea gigas. PG - 199245 LID - S0168-1702(23)00207-1 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2023.199245 [doi] LID - 199245 AB - Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) is one of the most economically important pathogens of Pacific oysters. Understanding the pathogenesis of this virus is critical to developing tools to control outbreaks on shellfish farms. OsHV-1 is genetically related to vertebrate herpesviruses, which have a lytic and a latent stage, with the latent stage capable of being reactivated to the lytic stage. Here, OsHV-1 latency in Pacific oysters was investigated in experimentally and naturally infected oysters. Lytic infection in one-year-old oysters injected with the Tomales Bay strain of OsHV-1 was detectable between 1 and 4 days post-injection (dpi) but was not detectable after 5 dpi. The injected oysters shed 1 x 10(2) to 1 x 10(4) DNA copies/ml into the water during the 4-day acute phase. Lytic shedding was not detectable in two-year-old oysters injected similarly with the same strain of OsHV-1; however, the OsHV-1 genome was detectable by qPCR in the adductor muscle, gill, mantle, and hemocytes within the first 3 dpi, after which it became undetectable. No OsHV-1 was detectable in the adductor muscle, gill, or mantle from experimentally infected oysters on days 15 and 21 post-injection or from oysters sampled 9 months after surviving an OsHV-1 mortality event; however, OsHV-1 DNA could be detected in hemocytes of both experimentally infected oysters at 21 dpi and naturally infected oysters using nested PCR. In addition, lytic viral gene transcription was detectable in hemocytes of experimentally infected oysters between 1 and 21 dpi and in hemocytes of naturally infected oysters. Furthermore, OsHV-1 reactivation from latency was induced in experimentally infected oysters at 21 dpi and in naturally infected oysters 12 months after an OsHV-1 outbreak. CI - Copyright (c) 2023. Published by Elsevier B.V. FAU - Divilov, Konstantin AU - Divilov K AD - Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR 97365, USA. FAU - Wang, Xisheng AU - Wang X AD - Department of Biomedical Sciences, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. FAU - Swisher, Alexandra E AU - Swisher AE AD - Department of Biomedical Sciences, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. FAU - Yeoman, Peyton C AU - Yeoman PC AD - Department of Biomedical Sciences, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. FAU - Rintoul, Maxwell AU - Rintoul M AD - Hog Island Oyster Co., Marshall, CA 94940, USA. FAU - Fleener, Gary B AU - Fleener GB AD - Hog Island Oyster Co., Marshall, CA 94940, USA. FAU - Schoolfield, Blaine AU - Schoolfield B AD - Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR 97365, USA. FAU - Langdon, Chris AU - Langdon C AD - Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR 97365, USA. FAU - Jin, Ling AU - Jin L AD - Department of Biomedical Sciences, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. Electronic address: ling.jin@oregonstate.edu. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20231025 PL - Netherlands TA - Virus Res JT - Virus research JID - 8410979 RN - 9007-49-2 (DNA) RN - Ostreid herpesvirus 1 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - *Crassostrea/genetics MH - DNA Viruses/genetics MH - *Herpesviridae/genetics MH - DNA PMC - PMC10613911 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Hemocytes OT - Latent OT - Nested PCR OT - OsHV-1 OT - Pacific oysters OT - Reactivation OT - qPCR COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflict of interest EDAT- 2023/10/16 00:42 MHDA- 2023/12/17 09:44 PMCR- 2023/10/25 CRDT- 2023/10/15 19:25 PHST- 2023/08/30 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/10/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/10/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/12/17 09:44 [medline] PHST- 2023/10/16 00:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/10/15 19:25 [entrez] PHST- 2023/10/25 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0168-1702(23)00207-1 [pii] AID - 199245 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2023.199245 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Virus Res. 2024 Jan 2;339:199245. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2023.199245. Epub 2023 Oct 25.