“…On the other hand, only a few reports have been focused on NNV virulence determinants. 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.…”