White spot syndrome

Whispovirus
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(unranked): Virus
Class: Naldaviricetes
Order: incertae sedis
Family: Nimaviridae
Genus: Whispovirus
Species

White spot syndrome virus

White spot syndrome (WSS) is a viral infection of penaeid shrimp. The disease is highly lethal and contagious, killing shrimp quickly. Outbreaks of this disease have wiped out the entire populations of many shrimp farms within a few days, in places throughout the world.

White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is the lone virus of the genus Whispovirus (white spot), which is the only genus in the family Nimaviridae.[1] It is responsible for causing white spot syndrome in a wide range of crustacean hosts.[2][3]

The disease is caused by a family of related viruses subsumed as the white spot syndrome baculovirus complex[4] and the disease caused by them as white spot syndrome.[5]

  1. ^ Wang, HC; Hirono, I; Maningas, MBB; Somboonwiwat, K; Stentiford, G; ICTV Report, Consortium (July 2019). "ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Nimaviridae". The Journal of General Virology. 100 (7): 1053–1054. doi:10.1099/jgv.0.001248. PMID 30924764.
  2. ^ "ICTV Report Nimaviridae".
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference ViralZone was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Non-Native Species Summaries: Whitespot Syndrome Baculovirus complex (WSBV)". Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission. 2003. Archived from the original on October 18, 2005. Retrieved June 30, 2005.
  5. ^ Lightner, D. V. (1996). A handbook of shrimp pathology and diagnostic procedures for diseases of cultured penaeid shrimp. World Aquaculture Society, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.