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SUBMITTER: Tamai T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3449874 | biostudies-other | 1997
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tamai T T Tsujimura K K Shirahata S S Oda H H Noguchi T T Kusuda R R Sato N N Kimura S S Katakura Y Y Murakami H H
Cytotechnology 19970101 1-3
A new disease of epidemic proportions caused by fish viruses within the Iridoviridae family inflicts serious damage on red sea breams (Pagrus major) and striped jack (Caranx delicatissimus) populations grown in aquacultures in Japan. A partial segment of the fish iridoviral DNA was directly amplified using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with synthetic primers designed from well conserved nucleotide sequences between the frog virus 3 (Ranavirus) and the silkworm iridescent virus type 6. The ...[more]