Publications

simultaneous detection of scale drop disease virus and flavobacterium columnare from diseased freshwater-reared barramundi lates calcarifer.	freshwater farming of barramundi lates calcarifer in thailand is a growing sector in aquaculture, but mortalities due to infectious diseases are still a major threat to this industry. in 2018, an episode of severe mortality in juvenile barramundi was noted in a freshwater earth pond site. fish presented with severe gill necrosis, as well as severe cutaneous hemorrhages, scale loss, and discoloration at the base of dorsal fin (saddleback lesions). histopathology revealed extensive necrosis of ske ...	2020	32759470
a novel virus causes scale drop disease in lates calcarifer.	from 1992 onwards, outbreaks of a previously unknown illness have been reported in asian seabass (lates calcarifer) kept in maricultures in southeast asia. the most striking symptom of this emerging disease is the loss of scales. it was referred to as scale drop syndrome, but the etiology remained enigmatic. by using a next-generation virus discovery technique, vidisca-454, sequences of an unknown virus were detected in serum of diseased fish. the near complete genome sequence of the virus was d ...	2015	26252390