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characterization of a taura syndrome virus isolate originating from the 2004 texas epizootic in cultured shrimp.	a comprehensive investigation of the taura syndrome virus (tsv) isolate that caused epizootics in shrimp farms in texas in 2004 (texas isolate) revealed that this virus was more virulent in laboratory bioassays than the tsv reference isolate, hawaii 1994, causing severe symptom development and rapid mortality. histopathology of moribund animals demonstrated epithelial necrosis within the stomach, appendages, general body cuticle and gills, and the surviving animals demonstrated moderate to numer ...	2010	20049618
taura syndrome virus in specific pathogen-free penaeus vannamei originating from hawaii and in p. vannamei stocks farmed in france?	it is the opinion of the authors of the comment on do et al. (2006), that those authors incorrectly interpreted their test results, which are more likely the result of mislabeling of samples or within-laboratory contamination, and that the tsv isolates found in penaeus vannamei in korea in 2004 and 2005 did not originate from hawaii as claimed by the authors, but from a country (or countries) in southeast asia. finally, we believe that the authors did not follow proper international guidelines, ...	2007	17425266