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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 81, Issue 10, Pages 3280-3287Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.04175-14
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- Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Scientist Office [894-0183-10]
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Nervous necrosis virus (NNV) is a member of the Betanodavirus genus that causes fatal diseases in over 40 species of fish worldwide. Mortality among NNV-infected fish larvae is almost 100%. In order to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for the susceptibility of fish larvae to NNV, we exposed zebrafish larvae to NNV by bath immersion at 2, 4, 6, and 8 days postfertilization (dpf). Here, we demonstrate that developing zebrafish embryos are resistant to NNV at 2 dpf due to the protection afforded by the egg chorion and, to a lesser extent, by the perivitelline fluid. The zebrafish larvae succumbed to NNV infection during a narrow time window around the 4th dpf, while 6- and 8-day-old larvae were much less sensitive, with mortalities of 24% and 28%, respectively.
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