| heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (hsmi) disease diagnosed on a british columbia salmon farm through a longitudinal farm study. | heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (hsmi) is an emerging disease of marine-farmed atlantic salmon (salmo salar), first recognized in 1999 in norway, and later also reported in scotland and chile. we undertook a longitudinal study involving health evaluation over an entire marine production cycle on one salmon farm in british columbia (canada). in previous production cycles at this farm site and others in the vicinity, cardiac lesions not linked to a specific infectious agent or disease were ... | 2017 | 28225783 |