Abstract
Sturgeon, as a kind of rare large-scale economic fish, has high scientific research and commercial value. But virosis was a significant cause of mortality among farm-raised juvenile sturgeon, which brought tremendous loss in the last decades. In this paper, we reviewed the studies on four sturgeon viruses: white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) iridovirus (WSIV), white sturgeon herpesvirus-1,2 (WSHV-1,2) and shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus Scaphirhynchus) iridovirus (SSIV). The content of this review were mainly focused on clinic symptom of infected fish, diagnostic method, virus isolation, prophylactic and remedy. Based on a detailed conclusion and analysis, it is reasonable that molecular biology techniques might be a potential method for sturgeon virosis diagnosis.
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Foundation item: This research is supported by National Key Technologies R&D Program of China during the 10th Five-Year Plan Period (2001BA505B0506) and the Homecoming Foundation of Hei Longjiang Province: Prevention and cure of the disease outbreak among cultured sturgeon sub-yearling (NO. L99-7).
Biography: HUA Yu-ping (1955-), male, Professor in Wildlife Resource Collage of Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, P.R. China.
Responsible editor: Zhu Hong