Donald V. Lightner

TL;DR: A survey of disease problems adversely affecting cultured shrimp at farms in Southern Taiwan was conducted in March of 1986, and findings indicate that MBV is a common infectious agent in cultured stocks of these species in Taiwan.

TL;DR: The ssRNA genome extracted from purified Taura Syndrome Virus was transcribed into double-stranded, blunt-ended cDNA and was used to construct cDNA libraries either in pUC 18 or in pBluescript II KS-vectors and the specificity of the 2 probes was confirmed by in situ hybridization on histological sections of TS diseased shrimps.

TL;DR: This qPCR assay is specific with high sensitivity (10 copies of virulence plasmid) and can be used to detect AHPND-pathogenic V. parahaemolyticus in shrimp and water samples.

TL;DR: The findings further strengthen the existing evidence that TS has a viral, not a toxic, etiology and indicate that either a single TSV strain, or very similar strains of the same virus, are responsible for the TSV panzootic that has been expanding in the Americas since 1992.

TL;DR: The number of WSSV genomes in both hemolymph and tissues corresponded to the severity of infection determined by histological evaluation as well as to the concentration of the internal standard.