Outbreak of Viral Nervous Necrosis in Endangered Fish species Epinephelus costae and E. marginatus in Northern Tunisian Coasts

Abstract

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Betanodavirus and VER Disease: A 30-year Research Review

“…In recent The RGNNV genotype, which affects tropical and temperate fish species, is the most widely distributed ( Figure 2) and has the highest number of susceptible species (Tables 1, 2 and 4). In recent years, surveys conducted in different geographical areas have shown that RGNNV is widely distributed Pathogens 2020, 9, 106 6 of 46 not only in farmed but also among wild fish in the Mediterranean basin and along the coasts of Asia and Australia [46,[62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72]. It has also been isolated from farmed white seabass (Atractoscion nobilis) in California [73].…”

“…It is well documented that changes experienced by ecosystems will affect the epidemiology of infectious diseases in animals, in the wild and under intensive farming conditions, including aquaculture [152][153][154][155][156]. The high number of wild asymptomatic species infected with NNV, mainly in Asian and Mediterranean countries [62,64,[66][67][68]71,80,82] and the quick rise in the viral load and subsequent outbreak of mortalities observed in experimentally infected sole when water temperature increased from 16 to 22 • C [148], suggest that VER outbreaks could have dramatic effects on natural populations, as has already been reported for some endangered fish species in the Mediterranean [72,96,109]. On the other hand, it could be argued that ocean warming could decrease the pathologies associated with the BFNNV genotype.…”

“…The fact that most NNV isolates obtained from farmed fish have caused high mortalities [5,72,92,97,102,137], and therefore can all be considered highly virulent strains, and the scarce number of isolates obtained from asymptomatic reared fish, which could be considered as avirulent, probably explains the low number of studies on NNV virulence. However, the increasing number of detections in farmed and wild asymptomatic fish [58,[62][63][64][65][66]68,126,130,132,201] should also increase the number of isolates which could be used in the future for virulence studies.…”

“…Mortalities associated to NNV have been recorded in wild grouper (E. costae and E. marginatus) inhabiting European and African Mediterranean waters [72,96,106,109], in European sea bass also in the Mediterranean basin [96], in mullet (Liza aurata and L. saliens) in the Caspian sea [82] and in milky fish (Chanos chanos) in the Indian ocean [80]. In addition, different surveys, mainly in Asian and European waters, have reported the detection of NNV in a wide variety of asymptomatic fish belonging to more than 120 different species, 54 families and 19 orders [50,58,[62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69]126,130,139,140] (Table 4). Around 90% of these detections have been genotyped and 86% have been clustered with the RGNNV genotype.…”

Ulcerative dermatitis in wild dusky grouper Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe) from Libyan waters

“…Wild dusky grouper have been previously observed to suffer naturally occurring disease outbreaks (Vendramin et al 2013), with moribund and dead fish often observed to carry skin lesions, principally on the head. These are frequently associated with physical damage occurring as a consequence of loss of equilibrium brought about by nodaviral encephalitis (Marino & Azzuro 2001;Vendramin et al 2013;Haddad-Boubaker et al 2014;Kara et al 2014). In Libya, mass mortalities of a range of wild grouper species have been frequently reported (Southgate 1985).…”