The Atlantic Salmon Gill Transcriptome Response in a Natural Outbreak of Salmon Gill Pox Virus Infection Reveals New Biomarkers of Gill Pathology and Suppression of Mucosal Defense

The salmon gill poxvirus (SGPV) is a large DNA virus that infects gill epithelial cells in Atlantic salmon and is associated with acute high mortality disease outbreaks in aquaculture. The pathological effects of SGPV infection include gill epithelial apoptosis in the acute phase of the disease and...

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Main Authors: Mona C. Gjessing, Aleksei Krasnov, Gerrit Timmerhaus, Svante Brun, Sergey Afanasyev, Ole Bendik Dale, Maria K. Dahle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2020.02154/full