Infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) is a disease caused by infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV), genus Isavirus, family Orthomyxoviridae that affects primarily marine-farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Recorded for the first time in 1984 in Norway, it still causes recurrent epidemic outbreaks in Chile. The disease is present in most countries that farm Atlantic salmon: Norway, Scotland, Ireland, Faroe Islands, Canada, USA, and Chile. The virus is adapted to cold-water salmonid fish and has an optimum growth at 15°C. Atlantic salmon is the only species known...
Categoría: Liver
Tilapia are considered to be relatively resistant to many of the common diseases that beset other farmed fish. Viral diseases, however, are not common, and there are only a few reports in the literature. Syncytial Hepatitis of Tilapia (SHT) is a newly described viral disease reported from several countries where tilapia farming is present. This virus is a member of the Orthomyxoviridae family. It has been demonstrated within hepatocytes of affected fish. The described ultrastructural changes provide further evidence to support the previous suggestion of...
Syncytial Hepatitis of Tilapia (SHT) is a newly described viral disease reported from Ecuador, Israel, Colombia and several other countries where tilapia farming is present. The most consistently described target organs are the liver and gastrointestinal tract, although there are some reports of lesions within the central nervous system. The presence of a novel virus with close affinity to the family Orthomyxoviridae has been demonstrated within hepatocytes of affected fish. Histopathological lesions include necrotizing hepatitis with distinctive hepatocellular syncytial giant cell formation, dissociation of hepatocytes...