Journal
JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES
Volume 42, Issue 6, Pages 913-921Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jfd.12996
Keywords
asymptomatic surviving fish; cyprinid herpesvirus 2; infectivity; persistent infection; reactivation
Funding
- JSPS KAKENHI [15H04544]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15H04544] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Cyprinid herpesvirus 2 (CyHV-2) is the causative agent of herpesviral haematopoietic necrosis (HVHN) in goldfish, Carassius auratus, and Prussian carp, C. auratus gibelio. In this study, we investigated virus persistence in goldfish experimentally infected with CyHV-2. Virus DNA presence in organs was monitored in survivors reared at a virus permissive temperature and also in survivors treated with a non-permissive temperature for 4 days, initiated at three different time points post-infection in order to obtain fish with different virus loads. We detected virus DNA in all organs tested at 51 days post-infection (dpi) and in the spleen, trunk kidney and gills of survivors at 81 dpi, although the virus load in fish influenced the subsequent number of organs that tested positive for virus DNA. In addition, some organs dissected from four out of five asymptomatic survivors tested positive by PCR following incubation in vitro in a medium for 5 days. Following inoculation with the homogenate of PCR-positive kidney incubated in vitro, one of the three inoculated fish died, showing that the detected virus by PCR produced infectious particles. This study suggests that CyHV-2 can establish a persistent infection in some organs, especially the spleen and trunk kidney, and that asymptomatic surviving fish can be a source of infection.
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