• Title/Summary/Keyword: Salmonid alphavirus

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Review on the necessity of boarder quarantine to prevent introduction of salmonid alphavirus into Korea (연어 알파바이러스 감염증의 국경검역 필요성에 대한 고찰)

  • Yu, Jinha;Cho, Jaebum
    • Journal of fish pathology
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.57-70
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    • 2018
  • Infection with salmonid alphavirus (SAV) is a serious disease that mainly affects rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) reared in seawater or freshwater. SAV is prevalent in European countries including Norway that exports rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon to Korea. Consequently, SAV was listed as a disease notifiable to the OIE and many salmonid-producing countries either designate SAV as their notifiable disease or do research on the development of diagnosis and epidemiology to reduce the possibility of SAV infection. Unlike other salmonid-producing countries, SAV is not listed as a notifiable disease in Korea, thereby arousing concern that SAV will get into the country through the importation of live salmonids. Under the circumstance, Korea needs to have a legal basis to take much stricter follow-up measures, including listing SAV as a notifiable disease, establishing surveillance system based on OIE standards to declare Korea free from SAV, killing infected fish and conducting fallow system against affected farms.