While Chile did not feel the full-blown effects of ISA on its salmon farming production until this year, the problems that first began to surface in 2007 can be traced back to salmon from Norway in 1997, researchers led by Fred Kibenge, professor of virology at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada, said in the curfrent issue of Virology Journal.
Tissue samples were collected from ISA-affected fish on different farms among 14 fish companies in Chile during the ISA outbreaks that started in June 2007, and the genes of two glycoproteins were cloned and sequenced for 51 and 78 new isolates, respectively.
Those
