Dan Mulcahy
John R. MacMillian
1979
<p><span>In Puget Sound, Wash., the incidence of viral erythrocytic necrosis (VEN) varied geographically from 0 to 17% in chum salmon (</span><i>Oncorhynchus keta</i><span>) and from 4 to 59% in Pacific herring (</span><i>Clupea harengus pallasi</i><span>). The disease was experimentally transmitted by intraperitoneal injection to chum, pink (</span><i>O</i><span>. </span><i>gorbuscha</i><span>), coho (</span><i>O</i><span>. </span><i>kisutch</i><span>), chinook (</span><i>O</i><span>. </span><i>tshawytscha</i><span>), sockeye (</span><i>O</i><span>. </span><i>nerka</i><span>), and Atlantic (</span><i>Salmo salar</i><span>) salmon, and rainbow (</span><i>S</i><span>. </span><i>gairdneri</i><span>), brown (</span><i>S</i><span>. </span><i>trutta</i><span>), and brook (</span><i>Salvelinus fontinalis</i><span>) trout. The disease was transmitted to chum salmon and brook trout by waterborne virus. Virus obtained from herring was experimentally transmitted into chum salmon by intraperitoneal injection. </span><i>Key words</i><span>: viral erythrocytic necrosis, fish disease, transmission</span></p>
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10.1139/f79-153
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Canadian Science Publishing
Artificial transmission to and susceptibility of Puget Sound fish to viral erythrocytic necrosis (VEN)
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