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A number of picorna-like viruses have been
isolated from fish: barramundi virus-1 (BaV), grouper
virus, sea-bass virus-1 (SBV-1), smelt virus-1 (SmV-1), smelt virus-2 (SmV-2)
and turbot virus-1 (TuV-1).
According to Hetrick (1994), picorna-like
viruses also cause disease in Rainbow smelt, Atlantic salmon, Rainbow trout,
Brown trout and Japanese parrotfish.
According to Chittick et al. (2001), "Picorna-like
viruses have been documented in salmonids, Australian sea bass, Japanese
parrotfish, red-spotted grouper, striped jack, and rainbow smelt (McAllister
1993a, 1993b; Noga 1996)".
Recently the genome sequences of two fish picornaviruses
have been reported. Bluegill picornavirus
(Barbknecht, 2009) and eel picornavirus
(Philipps et al., 2010) are unrelated to each other.
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Chittick, B., Stoskopf, M., Heil, N., Levine,
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