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Scale Drop Disease Virus Associated Yellowfin Seabream (Acanthopagrus latus) Ascites Diseases, Zhuhai, Guangdong, Southern China: The First Description

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VIRUSES-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 8, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/v13081617

Keywords

scale drop disease virus; yellowfin seabream ascites diseases; genome; proteome; pathogenicity

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  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFD0900501]
  2. Innovation Group Project of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) [311021006]
  3. Key Research and Development Program of Zhuhai city
  4. Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province [2018A050506027]
  5. Guangdong Provincial Special Fund for MAITIT [2019KJ141]

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The study describes the prevalence of Scale drop disease virus (SDDV) in farmed Asian seabass in Southeast Asia, isolates an SDDV ZH-06/20, and analyzes its genome and proteome. SDDV ZH-06/20 was found to cause 100% mortality in juvenile yellowfin seabream, characterized by severe ascites. This study provides valuable information for better understanding SDDV-associated diseases in farmed fish.
Scale drop disease virus (SDDV), an emerging piscine iridovirus prevalent in farmed Asian seabass Lates calcarifer in Southeast Asia, was firstly scientifically descripted in Singapore in 2015. Here, an SDDV isolate ZH-06/20 was isolated by inoculating filtered ascites from diseased juvenile yellowfin seabream into MFF-1 cell. Advanced cytopathic effects were observed 6 days post-inoculation. A transmission electron microscopy examination confirmed that numerous virion particles, about 140 nm in diameter, were observed in infected MFF-1 cell. ZH-06/20 was further purified and both whole genome and virion proteome were determined. The results showed that ZH-06/20 was composed of 131,122 bp with 135 putative viral proteins and 113 of them were further detected by virion proteome. Western blot analysis showed that no (or weak) cross-reaction was observed among several major viral proteins between ZH-06/20 and ISKNV-like megalocytivirus. An artificial challenge showed that ZH-06/20 could cause 100% death to juvenile yellowfin seabream. A typical sign was characterized by severe ascites, but not scale drop, which was considerably different from SDD syndrome in Asian seabass. Collectively, SDDV was confirmed, for the first time, as the causative agent of ascites diseases in farmed yellowfin seabream. Our study offers useful information to better understanding SDDV-associated diseases in farmed fish.

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