Genome Sequence of Tilapia Lake Virus Associated with Syncytial Hepatitis of Tilapia in an Ecuadorian Aquaculture Facility

Kuttichantran Subramaniam; Hugh W Ferguson; Richard Kabuusu; Thomas B Waltzek

doi:10.1128/MRA.00084-19

Genome Sequence of Tilapia Lake Virus Associated with Syncytial Hepatitis of Tilapia in an Ecuadorian Aquaculture Facility

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 May 2;8(18):e00084-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00084-19.

Authors

Kuttichantran Subramaniam¹, Hugh W Ferguson², Richard Kabuusu², Thomas B Waltzek³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
² Marine Medicine Programme, School of Veterinary Medicine, St. George's University, St. George, Grenada.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA tbwaltzek@ufl.edu.

Abstract

Here, we report the complete coding sequences of tilapia lake virus (TiLV) associated with syncytial hepatitis of tilapia (SHT). The TiLV strain was sequenced from the liver RNA extract of a moribund Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fingerling from an Ecuadorian aquaculture facility in 2012.