• 한국어병학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.191-195
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• 1993

With the rapid progress in seed production techniques, aquaculture production of economically important species of marine fish has been accelerated in Japan. Howecer, mass mortalities due to viral infections as well as other microbial infections have often occurred during the seed production and grow-out stages. Among these diseases, four viral diseases have been known in cultured Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) since around 1980. In this paper, viral diseases of cultured flounder in Japan are briefly reviewed, with special attention to two viral diseases. viral epidermal hyperplasia and rhabdovirus infection which are relatively important because of their frequent occurrence. Viral epidermal hyperplasia is characterized by fin opacity and associated with high mortality in larval flounder Electron microscopy of affected epidermal cells and transmission experiments with tissue filtrates demonstrated that the disease was caused by a herpesvirus but the agent has not been isolated in fish cell lines. On the other hand, rhabdovires infection occurrs in juvenile and production size fish with hemorrhage in the skeltal muscle and fins, congestion of the gonads, and ascites. A rhabdovirys was isolated in RTG-2 cells from the diseased flounder as a causative agent, which was designated hirame rhabdovirus (HRV) or Rahbdovirus olivaceus. HRV is serologically distinguishable from other known fish rhabdoviruses. Intensive researches on these viral diseases started in 1980th. but properties of the causative agents and infection mechanisms have not been fully investigated. This results in difficulty in controlling these diseases.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.982-986
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• 2009

For the production of ghost bacteria vaccine to prevent the streptococcal disease in aquaculture fish species, a double cassettes vector was constructed and cloned in Escherichia coli DH5${\alpha}$. Ghost bacteria vaccine production from Escherichia coli DH5${\alpha}$/pHCE-InaN-GAPDH-Ghost 37 SDM (SIG) was maximized at a glucose concentration of 1 g/l, agitation of 300 rpm, and aeration of 1 vvm. The maximal efficiency of ghost bacteria formation was obtained at the mid-exponential phase ($OD_{600}=2.0$) with the concentration of 0.77 g/l for SIG. The molecular mass of GAPDH was detected at 67 kDa with the insoluble fraction, by SDS-PAGE and Western blot. The protective efficacy of ghost bacteria vaccine was evaluated by challenge test using olive flounder. The cumulative mortalities of the positive control, formalin-killed cell (FKC) vaccine, and SIG vaccine immunized groups were 91%, 74%, and 57%, respectively. These results suggest that SIG vaccine showed efficacy as a vaccine and had a higher potential to induce protective antibodies than did FKC vaccine.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.257-264
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• 2009

Seventeen females of the mud crab Scylla serrata, from the State of Kosrae, Micronesia, were transported to the Fisheries Resources Research Institute, Gyeongsangnam-do, in oxygen-filled plastic bags. After acclimatization to a $30^{\circ}C$ holding temperature, nine females were selected for seed production trials. Spawning was hastened using eyestalk ablations; however, this may not be required in commercialscale mud crab seed production. Primary spawning produced an average of 2.4 million hatched larvae, whereas secondary spawning produced 0.4 million. About 10 days elapsed between spawning and hatching and 30 days between hatching and crablet. Mass mortalities up to 90% were observed between stages zoea 1 and zoea 2 in every trial. The highest survival rate from zoea 1 to crablet was estimated at 0.25%. Most commercial shrimp hatcheries in Korea are equipped with almost all necessary facilities and could be converted easily to mud crab hatcheries, able to run three to four times per year using hatchery technologies developed for blue crabs and Chinese mitten crabs.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.11-24
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• 2017

The current investigation dealing with the causative agent of mass mortalities in cultured Oreochromis niloticus. The diseased fish showed external hemorrhage, unilateral and bilateral eye opacity, ended by blindness and fish death. The postmortem lesions revealed congested friable kidney and spleen, and liver has yellow nodules. Obtained isolates were identified as Aeromonas hydrophila (the causative agent of Motile Aeromonas Septicemia) and found to be highly pathogenic as they contained hemolysin virulence gene causing mortality reached to 100 and 70% in intraperitoneal and intramuscular infection. The prevalence of MAS was 80% among the surveyed O. niloticus. Blood and serum were collected from naturally diseased, intraperitoneal and intramuscular injected O. niloticus for hematological and biochemical examination. Similarly, gills, musculature, kidney, liver and spleen were collected for histopathological evaluation, and micropathomorphological analysis of spleen was done. Macrocytic hypochromic anemia was recorded in the intraperitoneal infection. Serum protein, albumin and globulin were decrease only in naturally diseased fish. Leucocytosis with heterophilia and lymphocytosis were observed in naturally diseased and intraperitoneal infected fish. There were severe degenerative changes and hemorrhagic necrosis in the examined tissues which were more obvious in intraperitoneal than intramuscular infection. Activation and proliferation of melanocytes macrophages centers with severe hemosiderosis were recorded in spleen of naturally diseased and experimentally infected fish.

• 한국양식학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.63-69
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• 1993

여러 규모의 적조 현상이 1970년대 말부터 우리나라 대부분의 패류 및 어류 양식장이 있는 남해안에서 일어나고 있다. 경남 충무의 북신만도 이곳 중의 하나로 1980년대 초부터 매년 적조가 나타나고 있다. $1990\~1991$년 사이에 양식 생물의 대량 폐사가 이곳에 나타났고 이때의 우점 적조 생물 종은 90년 11월과 91년 6월에 Leplocylindrus danicus, 90년 12월과 91년 8월에는 Skeletonema costatum, 그리고 91년 8월에는 Nitzschia seriata, 91년 7월에는 Gymnodinium splendens로 기록되었으며 적조 시기의 최대 클로로필-a 량은 $265.7{\mu}/l$였다. 이렇게 빈번하게 발생하는 적조 현상은 부근 해역의 부영양화와 관계 있으며 적조와 부영양화의 상관 관계에 대하여 본 논문에서 논의하였다.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.173-183
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• 2013

2012년 7월에서 9월초까지 경상남도 연안의 해상 가두리 양식장에서 사육중인 조피볼락의 대량폐사가 발생하였으며, 피해량은 1,802,000마리로 집계되었다. 폐사 해역의 수온은 최대 $28.4^{\circ}C$까지 상승하였으며, 일간 수온변화의 폭은 최대 $6.5^{\circ}C$로 급격한 상승과 반복적인 변화가 확인되었다. 49개 어업권 194마리를 대상으로 생물학적 질병을 조사한 결과, 일부 양식장의 조피볼락에서 참돔이리도바이러스(red seabream iridovirus, RSIV), Vibrio sp.와 Vibrio spp. 또는 Microcotyle sp. 등의 주요 병원체가 확인되었다. 대량폐사의 주요 원인은 고수온과 동반하여 나타나는 반복적인 일간 수온변화, 그리고 생물학적 질병이 폐사의 증가에 영향을 미친 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국양식학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.278-288
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• 2007

새우양식은 90년대 서해안을 중심으로 빠르게 발달하여 2001년에는 2,605ha의 면적에서 3,268톤이 생산되었으나 2004년에는 2,368톤으로 해마다 감소되고 있다. 이러한 원인 중의 하나는 흰반점바이러스(WSSV)에 의한 대량폐사에 기인하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 흰반점바이러스는 현재 세계적으로 새우양식산업에 심각한 피해를 입히는 바이러스로 우리나라에는 1993년 처음 보고된 후 해마다 새우양식장에 반복적인 대량폐사를 유발시킨다. 축제식 새우양식장의 질병 피해를 감소시키기 위한 방법의 하나로서 새우와 어류, 패류, 해조류를 함께 복합양식하는 방법이 많은 연구되어 있으며 또한 육식성 어류와의 복합양식은 질병새우를 선택적으로 포식함으로써 새우의 바이러스 발병을 지연 혹은 억제시키는 것으로 알려져 있다. 새우양식장에 육식성 어류인 황복 Takifugu obscurus을 복합적으로 사육함으로써 바이러스 억제 효과를 조사하기 위하여 수면적 $1,616{\sim}1,848\;m^2$의 4개 축제식 양식장에 각각 흰다리새우($46.9/m^2$), 흰다리새우($43.4/m^2$)+황복($0.22/m^2$), 대하($24.6/m^2$), 대하($30.3/m^2$)+황복($0.25/m^2$)의 밀도로 입식하고 95일간 사육하였다. 대하 단독구와 복합구는 각각 51일, 57일째 WSSV 발병으로 전량 폐사하였다. 흰다리새우 단독구의 생존율은 18.2%인 반면 복합구의 생존율은 32.4%이며 단위생산량은 단독구에 비해 69.2%가 높아 흰다리새우는 황복과 복합양식이 단독양식에 비해 훨씬 유리한 것으로 나타났다. 사육수의 영양염(TAN, $NO_2-N,\;NO_3-N$) 농도는 복합구가 단독구에 비해 2배 이상 높았으나 전체적으로 새우의 성장에 적정범위를 유지하였다. 대하는 흰다리새우에 비해 WSSV에 대한 감수성이 높은 것으로 나타났으며 따라서 대하와의 복합양식은 이러한 점이 충분히 고려되어야 할 것이다.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.109-115
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• 2016

Silk has had a reputation as a luxurious and sensuous fabric but it is not popular due to the expensive price and poor durability. To develop the silk materials that apply the various industries, the artificially synthesized gene can be introduced into the silkworm and expressed in the silk gland. Transgenic silkworms for the mass production of green fluorescent silks are generated using a fibroin H-chain expression system. For commercial use, safety assessment of the transgenic silkworms is essential. The purpose of this study was to examine the potential acute oral toxicity of EGFP protein expressed in genetically modified (GM) fluorescence silkworm and to obtain the approximative lethal dose in the male and female at 6-weeks ICR mice. EGFP protein was fed at a dose of 2,000 mg/kg body weight in five male or five female mice. Mortalities, clinical findings and body weight changes were monitored for 1, 3, 7, 14 days after dosing. At the end of 14 day observation period, all mice were sacrificed, and the postmortem necropsy were performed. The test group was not observed death case. Also the effect was not admitted by test substance administration in common symptoms, the body weight and postmortem. The results of single-dose oral toxicity test showed that approximative lethal dose of EGFP protein expressed in fluorescence silkworm was considered to exceed the 2,000 mg/kg body weight in both sexes.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.1508-1521
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• 2015

Vibrio harveyi is a pathogenic marine bacterium causing systemic symptoms resulting in mass mortalities in fishes and shrimps in aquaculture. Outer membrane proteins(OMPs) are related to the pathogenicity and thus good targets for diagnosis and vaccination for Gram negative bacteria. Recently vaccination strategies using the OMPs have been suggested to control vibriosis in several fish species. In this study, we have isolated V. harveyi from diseased marine fishes from different regions of Korea and investigated genetic variations of four OMP genes including OmpK, OmpU, OmpV and OmpW. Consequently, OmpK and U genes could be divided into 3 subgroups of type I, II, III and type A, B, C, respectively, without any correlation with geographical regions and species while OmpV and W were highly homologous. OmpW gene of V. harveyi FP4138 was fully sequenced and predicted the deduced amino acid sequence to form ${\beta}-barrel$ with hydrophobic channel. Indeed, the immunogenicity of recombinant OmpW produced in Escherichia coli was assessed by vaccinating flounder. As a result, the high antibody response with antibody titer of $4.2{\pm}0.7$ and protection with relative percent survival of 60% against artificial infection of V. harveyi were demonstrated. This result indicates that OmpW is a virulence related factor and it can be a vaccine candidate to prevent a high mortality caused by V. harveyi infection in olive flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2014

Scuticociliates are regarded as serious pathogens in marine aquaculture worldwide. In Korea, they cause mass-mortalities in fish such as the commercially important olive flounder Paralichthys olivaceus. In particular, mixed infections of scuticociliates with pathogenic bacteria have been commonly reported. During efforts to identify natural marine-algae derived products that possess anti-bacterial and anti-scuticociliate properties, we found that an 80% methanolic extract of the red alga Polysiphonia morrowii Harvey exhibits both anti-scuticociliate activity against Miamiensis avidus, which is a major causative agent of scuticociliatosis, and anti-bacterial activities against fish pathogenic bacteria. Activity-guided fractionation and isolation of the 80% methanolic extract of P. morrowii yielded three bromophenols, which were identified as 3-bromo-4,5-dihydroxybenzyl methyl ether (1), 3-bromo-4,5-dihydroxybenzaldehyde (2) and urceolatol (3) based on spectroscopic analyses. 3-bromo-4,5-dihydroxybenzyl methyl ether (1) showed the highest anti-bacterial and anti-scuticociliate activities, with a minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of $62.5{\mu}g/mL$ (against Vibrio anguillarum) and minimal lethal concentration (MLC) of 62.5 ppm (in seawater). Investigations of the anti-bacterial and anti-scuticociliate activities of seventeen bromophenol derivatives, including the three isolated natural bromophenols, showed that the existence of an electron donating group or atom with a non-covalent electron pair at $C_4$ of the 2-bromophenol structure may be important in anti-scuticociliate activity. These findings suggest that the extract and bromophenol derivatives of P. morrowii may provide useful alternatives in aquaculture anti-scuticociliate therapies.