Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Characterization of a novel picornavirus isolate from a diseased European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
- Journal:
- Journal of virology
- Year:
- 2013
- Authors:
- Fichtner, Dieter et al.
- Affiliation:
- Institute of Infectology · Germany
Abstract
A novel picornavirus was isolated from specimens of a diseased European eel (Anguilla anguilla). This virus induced a cytopathic effect in eel embryonic kidney cells and high mortality in a controlled transmission study using elvers. Eel picornavirus has a genome of 7,496 nucleotides that encodes a polyprotein of 2,259 amino acids. It has a typical picornavirus genome layout, but its low similarity to known viral proteins suggests a novel species in the family Picornaviridae.
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