Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences · 1987 · 61 citations · 0 references
Life SciencesInfectious DiseasesMicrobiologyFish PathologyMolecular VirologyVirologyAnimal VirusesAquatic Animal Infectious DiseasesViral InfectionsViral PathogenesisViral PathologyVirus-host InteractionsFish VirologyFreshwater VirologyInclusion Body LesionsIntracellular Inclusion BodiesIntracytoplasmic Inclusion BodiesViral Disease CausationViral Inclusion Body DiseaseViral Inclusions
Erythrocytic inclusions in the blood of spring chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) are the first confirmed occurrence of a natural infection caused by an erythrocytic necrosis virus in a population being reared in freshwater. The erythrocytic inclusion bodies ranged in size from 0.8 to 3 μm. Pinacyanol chloride stained the inclusions a pale purple. The viral particle size averaged 75 nm in diameter, and they were scattered randomly in the cytoplasm.