Abstract

Investigation about the distribution of salmonid viruses in pisciculture in Aquitaine and surrounding counties.

Nougayrede, P.
Bull. Fr. Peche Piscic.
311
134-138
1988
During a period of two years, 599 samples of rainbow trout (S. gairdneri)(71%), brown trout (Salmo trutta)(14%), brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)(1%), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)(2%), and various species (12%), were analysed. The viral haemorrhagic Septicaemia (V.H.S.) virus is present in about 6% of samples from 15 piscicultures and infectious pancreatic necrosis virus is present in about 42% of samples from the 55 piscicultures regularly inspected in Aquitaine.
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