White Spot Syndrome Virus in cultured shrimp: A review

By Jesús Genaro Sánchez-Martínez, G. Aguirre-Guzmán, H. Mejı́a-Ruı́z. 2007

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Shrimp is one of the main aquaculture species in the world. Different viruses affect them, which causes serious mortality to economically important species, such as Penaeus monodon, Litopenaeus vannamei and L. stylirostris, among others. White spot syndrome virus or WSSV is a highly lethal, stress-dependent virus, which belongs to the family Nimaviridae, genus Whispovirus. Three WSSV virus isolates were first detected in 1992 in Thailand, Taiwan and China. Later, a fourth isolate of the virus was detected in the Americas in 1999. This virus has a large circular double-stranded DNA genome with different sizes (292.9-307.2 kb), where the diverse isolates show differences in virulence. This virus infects a wide range of aquatic crustaceans by vertical and horizontal transmission, with different mortality results. The spread of infection between regions may be due to infected shrimp and carriers such as other crustaceans, seabirds, aquatic arthropods or other vectors. The aim of this work is to describe the current knowledge on the status, transmission, pathology, isolation, control and genomic characteristics of WSSV.

Subfields: Immunology, Insect Science

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A critical review of susceptibility of crustaceans to Taura syndrome, Yellowhead disease and White Spot Disease and implications of inclusion of these diseases in European legislation (2009, background): “WSD is regarded as perhaps the most serious threat facing the global penaeid shrimp farming industry (Sánchez-Martínez et al., 2007) with cumulative losses exceeding $10bn since 1993 (OIE, 2006).”
Infectious diseases affect marine fisheries and aquaculture economics. (2015, background): “The agent of white spot syndrome is Whispovirus, a new genus of double-stranded DNA viruses in the family Nimaviridae (Sánchez-Mártinez et al. 2007).”