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Another potential carp killer?: Carp Edema Virus disease in Germany

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Veterinary Research, May 2015
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Title
Another potential carp killer?: Carp Edema Virus disease in Germany
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BMC Veterinary Research, May 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12917-015-0424-7
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Verena Jung-Schroers, Mikolaj Adamek, Felix Teitge, John Hellmann, Sven Michael Bergmann, Heike Schütze, Dirk Willem Kleingeld, Keith Way, David Stone, Martin Runge, Barbara Keller, Shohreh Hesami, Thomas Waltzek, Dieter Steinhagen

Abstract

Infections with carp edema virus, a pox virus, are known from Japanese koi populations since 1974. A characteristic clinical sign associated with this infection is lethargy and therefore the disease is called "koi sleepy disease". Diseased koi also show swollen gills, enophthalmus, and skin lesions. Mortality rates up to 80 % are described. For a long period of time, disease outbreaks seemed to be restricted to Japan. However, during the last years clinical outbreaks of koi sleepy disease also occurred in the UK and in the Netherlands. In spring 2014 koi from different ponds showing lethargic behavior, skin ulcers, inflammation of the anus, enophthalmus, and gill necrosis were presented to the laboratory for diagnosis. In all cases, new koi had been purchased earlier that spring from the same retailer and introduced into existing populations. Eleven koi from six ponds were examined for ectoparasites and for bacterial and viral infections (cyprinid herpesviruses in general and especially koi herpesvirus (KHV) known formally as Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3); and Carp Edema Virus). In most of the cases parasites were not detected from skin and gills. Only opportunistic freshwater bacteria were isolated from skin ulcers. In cell cultures no cytopathic effect was observed, and none of the samples gave positive results in PCR tests for cyprinid herpesviruses. By analyzing gill tissues for CEV in seven out of eleven samples by a nested PCR, PCR products of 547 bp and 180 bp (by using nested primers) could be amplified. An outbreak of Koi Sleepy Disease was confirmed by sequencing of the PCR products. These results confirm the presence of CEV in German koi populations. A clinical outbreak of "koi sleepy disease" due to an infection with Carp Edema Virus was confirmed for the first time in Germany. To avoid transmission of CEV to common carp testing of CEV should become part of fish disease surveillance programs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 1 2%
Austria 1 2%
Unknown 59 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 21%
Other 9 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 13%
Student > Master 7 11%
Student > Bachelor 4 7%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 15 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 21%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 11 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 8%
Environmental Science 4 7%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 17 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 May 2016.
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#4,298,006
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Outputs from BMC Veterinary Research
#304
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#51,956
of 268,636 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Veterinary Research
#9
of 51 outputs
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