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  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,791 Views
12 Pages

Antiviral Activity of Crude Polysaccharide Derived from Seaweed against IHNV and IPNV In Vitro

  • Guangming Ren,
  • Liming Xu,
  • Jingzhuang Zhao,
  • Yizhi Shao and ,
  • Yujie Lin,
  • Linfang Li,
  • Qi Liu,
  • Tongyan Lu and
  • Qiya Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

19 September 2022

Both infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) and infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) are the causative agents of acute and highly contagious diseases of juvenile salmonids, resulting in severe economic losses to these cold-water fish g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viral Diseases of Aquaculture: Epidemiology, Mechanism, Diagnosis and Treatment)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,434 Views
11 Pages

21 May 2015

One impediment to the successful oral vaccination in fish is the hostile stomach environment that antigens must cross. Furthermore, uptake of antigens from the gut to systemic distribution is required for induction of systemic immunity, the dynamics...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Viruses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,112 Views
14 Pages

Differential Transcriptomic Response of Rainbow Trout to Infection with Two Strains of IPNV

  • David Tapia,
  • Juan Kuznar,
  • Rodolfo Farlora and
  • José M. Yáñez

23 December 2021

The IPN virus (IPNV) causes a highly contagious disease that affects farmed salmonids. IPNV isolates have been phylogenetically classified into seven genogroups, of which two are present in Chile, genogroups 1 and 5. This study aimed to compare the t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viruses Affecting Salmonids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,240 Views
9 Pages

Isolation of a New Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) Variant from a Fish Farm in Scotland

  • Jessica Benkaroun,
  • Katherine Fiona Muir,
  • Rosa Allshire,
  • Cüneyt Tamer and
  • Manfred Weidmann

28 February 2021

The aquatic virus, infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV), is known to infect various farmed fish, in particular salmonids, and is responsible for large economic losses in the aquaculture industry. Common practices to detect the virus include qP...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Viruses in Aquaculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,712 Views
22 Pages

Infection Dynamics and Host Responses to Two IPNV Isolates in Liver of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)

  • Valeria Aguilar Quiñones,
  • Fabian Grammes,
  • Victor Boyartchuk and
  • Jacob Seilø Torgersen

5 December 2025

The infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) used to be one of the largest loss factors in Atlantic salmon farming. Since 2009, marker-assisted selection for resistance to IPN, targeting a single major quantitative trait locus (QTL), has led to a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Infectious Diseases in Aquatic Animals)
  • Review
  • Open Access
91 Citations
13,150 Views
25 Pages

4 February 2020

Infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) is a disease of great concern in aquaculture, mainly among salmonid farmers, since losses in salmonid fish—mostly very young rainbow trout (Salmo gairdnery) fry and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) post-smolt—frequen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viral Diseases of Fish)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,722 Views
14 Pages

25 November 2022

Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) is the causative agent of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) IPN and causes significant loss of fingerlings. The currently prevalent IPNV genogroups in China are genogroups 1 and 5. However, in this study,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viral Diseases of Aquaculture: Epidemiology, Mechanism, Diagnosis and Treatment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,630 Views
17 Pages

Isolation of a New Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) Variant from Genetically Resistant Farmed Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) during 2021–2022

  • Marcos Godoy,
  • Molly J. T. Kibenge,
  • Marco Montes de Oca,
  • Juan Pablo Pontigo and ,
  • Yoandy Coca,
  • Diego Caro,
  • Karina Kusch,
  • Rudy Suarez,
  • Ian Burbulis and
  • Frederick S. B. Kibenge
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

16 November 2022

Infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN), caused by IPNV, affects several species of farmed fish, particularly Atlantic salmon, and is responsible for significant economic losses in salmon aquaculture globally. Despite the introduction of genetically res...

(This article belongs to the Section Viral Pathogens)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,868 Views
10 Pages

Evaluation of the Antiviral Activity against Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) of a Copper (I) Homoleptic Complex with a Coumarin as Ligand

  • Daniela Gutiérrez,
  • Almendra Benavides,
  • Beatriz Valenzuela,
  • Carolina Mascayano and ,
  • Maialen Aldabaldetrecu,
  • Angel Olguín,
  • Juan Guerrero and
  • Brenda Modak
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

22 December 2021

The aquatic infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) causes a severe disease in farmed salmonid fish that generates great economic losses in the aquaculture industry. In the search for new tools to control the disease, in this paper we show the re...

(This article belongs to the Topic Novel Antimicrobial Agents: Discovery, Design and New Therapeutic Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
570 Views
23 Pages

Preliminary Immunological Evaluation of Alginate Microparticles Loaded with Recombinant VP2 as an Immersion-Delivered Antigen Against Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) in Salmonids

  • Yosvania Hevia,
  • Tomás Cancino,
  • Yesseny Vásquez-Martínez,
  • Francisca Tapia and ,
  • Carla Arancibia,
  • Natalia Riquelme,
  • Iván Valdés and
  • Marcelo Cortez-San Martín
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

22 August 2026

Infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) is a highly contagious viral disease that causes significant economic losses in the global salmon farming industry. Despite the widespread use of vaccines, outbreaks caused by infectious pancreatic necrosis virus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viral Diseases of Aquatic Animals: Crustaceans, Mollusks, Fish, Sea Turtles, and Marine Mammals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,880 Views
20 Pages

Novel Type IIS-Based Library Assembly Technique for Developing Nanobodies Targeting IPNv VP2 Protein

  • Camila Pino-Belmar,
  • Johanna Himelreichs,
  • Camila Deride,
  • Tamara Matute and ,
  • Isaac Nuñez,
  • Severine Cazaux,
  • Fernan Federici,
  • Karen Moreno-Mendieta,
  • Genaro Soto-Rauch and
  • Guillermo Valenzuela-Nieto
  • + 14 authors+ 9 authors

25 September 2025

The development of effective tools to combat viral diseases remains a major challenge for the aquaculture industry. Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNv) is one of the most devastating pathogens affecting salmonids, leading to high mortality ra...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Nanoscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,241 Views
14 Pages

Characterization of a Novel Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) from Genogroup 6 Identified in Sea Trout (Salmo trutta) from Lake Vänern, Sweden

  • B. David Persson,
  • Jacob Günther Schmidt,
  • Mikhayil Hakhverdyan,
  • Mikael Leijon and ,
  • Niels Jørgen Olesen and
  • Charlotte Axén
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 January 2023

In November 2016, infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) was isolated from a broodstock female of landlocked sea trout (Salmo trutta) in Lake Vänern in Sweden. VP2 gene sequencing placed the IPNV isolate in genogroup 6, for which pathogenic...

(This article belongs to the Section Veterinary Microbiology, Parasitology and Immunology)
  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1,969 Views
1 Page

Expression Profiles of NOD-Like Receptors in Salmonid Cells after Infection with Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV)

  • Gardenia Payne,
  • Fernanda Fredericksen,
  • Nicolás Maldonado,
  • Melina Villalba and
  • Victor Olavarría

Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNv) is a worldwide etiologic agent of one disease that causes severe economic losses in several species of fish, mainly in young salmonids. Its genome consists of two linear double-stranded RNA segments that en...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Viruses 2020—Novel Concepts in Virology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,533 Views
12 Pages

Low Pathogenic Strain of Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) Associated with Recent Outbreaks in Iranian Trout Farms

  • Sohrab Ahmadivand,
  • Manfred Weidmann,
  • Mansour El-Matbouli and
  • Hooman Rahmati-Holasoo

24 September 2020

Infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN), first described as acute viral catarrhal enteritis, is a highly contagious disease with variable pathogenicity that has been linked to genetic variation in the viral VP2 gene encoding the capsid protein. In this...

(This article belongs to the Section Viral Pathogens)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,121 Views
16 Pages

PKR Activation Favors Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus Replication in Infected Cells

  • Amr A.A. Gamil,
  • Cheng Xu,
  • Stephen Mutoloki and
  • Øystein Evensen

21 June 2016

The double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase R (PKR) is a Type I interferon (IFN) stimulated gene that has important biological and immunological functions. In viral infections, in general, PKR inhibits or promotes viral replication, but PKR-IPNV...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Viruses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,245 Views
14 Pages

6 August 2022

Infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) and infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) are the most common viral diseases of salmon in aquaculture worldwide. The co-infection of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) with IHN virus (IHNV) and IPN virus (IPNV)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viral Diseases of Aquaculture: Epidemiology, Mechanism, Diagnosis and Treatment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,655 Views
18 Pages

Influence of Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus and Yersinia ruckeri Co-Infection on a Non-Specific Immune System in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

  • Joanna Pajdak-Czaus,
  • Patrycja Schulz,
  • Elżbieta Terech-Majewska,
  • Wojciech Szweda and ,
  • Andrzej Krzysztof Siwicki and
  • Aleksandra Platt-Samoraj
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 July 2021

Background: The IPNV is one of the most common viral pathogens of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), while Y. ruckeri infections are widespread among bacterial agents. The current study aimed to determine the influence of IPNV and Y. ruckeri co-inf...

(This article belongs to the Section Aquatic Animals)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,975 Views
25 Pages

The Molecular Biology and Replication Cycle of Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus

  • Daniela Espinoza,
  • Jorge Gómez,
  • Ana María Sandino,
  • Sebastián Gonzalez-Catrilelbún and
  • Andrea Rivas-Aravena

3 April 2026

Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV), a member of the family Birnaviridae, is a major pathogen of farmed salmonids and an important model in fish virology. Despite its small genome, which encodes only five viral proteins, IPNV exhibits complex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viral Diseases of Aquatic Animals: Crustaceans, Mollusks, Fish, Sea Turtles, and Marine Mammals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,005 Views
11 Pages

Evolution of an Extended Pathogenicity Motif in VP2 of Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus Isolates from Farmed Rainbow Trout in Turkey

  • Cuneyt Tamer,
  • Kristina Ulrich,
  • Nicholas Di Paola,
  • Hanne Nur Kurucay and ,
  • Harun Albayrak and
  • Manfred Weidmann
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 June 2024

Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) causes economic losses with a highly variable mortality rate worldwide, especially in rainbow trout. The virus has a double-stranded bi-partite RNA genome designated segment A and B. New complete genome seq...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Viruses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,121 Views
18 Pages

Establishment of an In Vitro Model to Study Viral Infections of the Fish Intestinal Epithelium

  • Guro Løkka,
  • Amr A. A. Gamil,
  • Øystein Evensen and
  • Trond M. Kortner

1 June 2023

Viral infections are still a major concern for the aquaculture industry. For salmonid fish, even though breeding strategies and vaccine development have reduced disease outbreaks, viral diseases remain among the main challenges having a negative impa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Fish Cell Research: Insights and Outcomes in Fundamental Science, Applied Aquaculture and Cell-Based Meat Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,771 Views
14 Pages

Quantitative Flow Cytometry to Measure Viral Production Using Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus as a Model: A Preliminary Study

  • Diego Vázquez,
  • Carmen López-Vázquez,
  • José G. Olveira,
  • Isabel Bandín and
  • Carlos P. Dopazo

26 September 2018

In recent decades, flow cytometry (FCM) has become an important tool in virology, due to its applications in viral replication and viral-cell interactions, as well as its capacity to quantify proteins (qFCM). In the present study, we have designed an...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,993 Views
29 Pages

The Regulation of Oxidative Stress Is a Conserved Response to RNA Virus Infection in Fish

  • Alejandro Romero,
  • Patricia Pereiro,
  • Antonio Figueras and
  • Beatriz Novoa

12 January 2026

RNA viruses are major pathogens in fish, causing high mortality and substantial economic losses in aquaculture. To uncover conserved antiviral mechanisms, we investigated the response of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) to viral hemorrhagic septicemia v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reactive Oxygen Species Signalling and Oxidative Stress in Fish)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,109 Views
14 Pages

Molecular Evolution of Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus in China

  • Kaiyue Duan,
  • Jingzhuang Zhao,
  • Guangming Ren,
  • Yizhi Shao and ,
  • Tongyan Lu,
  • Lipu Xu,
  • Xin Tang,
  • Wenwen Zhao and
  • Liming Xu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

16 March 2021

Passive virus surveillance was performed in twenty-nine salmon and trout farms from seven provinces and districts in China during the period 2017–2020. A total of 25 infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) isolates were obtained, mainly from rain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fish Virus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,921 Views
19 Pages

Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) often occurs in an aquatic environment in co-infection with other viruses. In this study, we wanted to investigate the effect of this virus on the course of co-infection with other viruses in rainbow trout....

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,062 Views
19 Pages

15 April 2015

Inhibition of protein synthesis represents one of the antiviral mechanisms employed by cells and it is also used by viruses for their own propagation. To what extent members of the Birnaviridae family employ such strategies is not well understood. He...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Viruses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,438 Views
17 Pages

Synthetic Peptides as a Promising Alternative to Control Viral Infections in Atlantic Salmon

  • Constanza Cárdenas,
  • Fanny Guzmán,
  • Marisela Carmona,
  • Cristian Muñoz and ,
  • Luis Nilo,
  • Alvaro Labra and
  • Sergio H. Marshall
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Viral infections in salmonids represent an ongoing challenge for the aquaculture industry. Two RNA viruses, the infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) and the infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV), have become a latent risk without healing thera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viral Diseases of Fish)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,455 Views
18 Pages

Andrographolide and Fucoidan Induce a Synergistic Antiviral Response In Vitro Against Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus

  • Mateus Frazao,
  • Daniela Espinoza,
  • Sergio Canales-Muñoz,
  • Catalina Millán-Hidalgo and ,
  • Benjamín Ulloa-Sarmiento,
  • Ivana Orellana,
  • J. Andrés Rivas-Pardo,
  • Mónica Imarai,
  • Eva Vallejos-Vidal and
  • Sebastián Reyes-Cerpa
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

Andrographolide, fucoidan, or a combination of both compounds were evaluated to determine their effects on the antiviral response in the Atlantic salmon macrophage-like cell line (SHK-1) infected with infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV). We a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Products as New Antiviral/Antiparasitic/Antibacterial/Antimicrobial Treatment Options)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,008 Views
11 Pages

First Report of Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD) Caused by Renibacterium salmoninarum in Chum Salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) Farmed in South Korea

  • Kyoung-Hui Kong,
  • In-Ha Gong,
  • Sung-Ju Jung,
  • Myung-Joo Oh and ,
  • Myung-Hwa Jung,
  • Hyun-Ja Han,
  • Hyoung Jun Kim and
  • Wi-Sik Kim
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

In 2021, a prominent increase in mortality was observed in juvenile and subadult cultured chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) on a mariculture farm in Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea. The affected fish displayed distinct symptoms: pale gills, petechia...

(This article belongs to the Section Veterinary Microbiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,744 Views
26 Pages

Interferon Regulatory Factor-1 (IRF-1) Is Involved in the Induction of Phosphatidylserine Receptor (PSR) in Response to dsRNA Virus Infection and Contributes to Apoptotic Cell Clearance in CHSE-214 Cell

  • Hsin-Chia Kung,
  • Øystein Evensen,
  • Jiann-Ruey Hong,
  • Chia-Yu Kuo and ,
  • Chun-Hsi Tso,
  • Fang-Huar Ngou,
  • Ming-Wei Lu and
  • Jen-Leih Wu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 October 2014

The phosphatidylserine receptor (PSR) recognizes a surface marker on apoptotic cells and initiates engulfment. This receptor is important for effective apoptotic cell clearance and maintains normal tissue homeostasis and regulation of the immune res...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,400 Views
16 Pages

19 January 2015

Vaccination is an important strategy for the control and prevention of infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) in farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the post-smolt stage in sea-water. In this study, a heterologous gene expression system, based on a...

(This article belongs to the Section Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,420 Views
12 Pages

Development and Application of Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus Antigen-Specific DAS-ELISA Detection Method

  • Jing-Zhuang Zhao,
  • Min Wu,
  • Li-Ming Xu,
  • Yi-Zhi Shao and ,
  • Wei-Tong Liu and
  • Tong-Yan Lu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 October 2025

Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV), a salmonid rhabdovirus, causes severe mortality exceeding 90% in both wild and farmed salmon and trout. Frequent outbreaks of IHNV highlight the urgent need for rapid detection methods to support effect...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,781 Views
19 Pages

10 October 2021

Immersion and intraperitoneal injection are the two most common methods used for the vaccination of fish. Because both methods require that fish are handled and thereby stressed, oral administration of vaccines as feed supplements is desirable. In ad...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Immunology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,198 Views
17 Pages

Viral Infection Drives the Regulation of Feeding Behavior Related Genes in Salmo salar

  • David Muñoz,
  • Ricardo Fuentes,
  • Beatriz Carnicero,
  • Andrea Aguilar and ,
  • Nataly Sanhueza,
  • Sergio San-Martin,
  • Cristian Agurto,
  • Andrea Donoso,
  • Leonardo E. Valdivia and
  • Sebastián Boltana
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

21 October 2021

The feeding behavior in fish is a complex activity that relies on the ability of the brain to integrate multiple signals to produce appropriate responses in terms of food intake, energy expenditure, and metabolic activity. Upon stress cues including...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)