RESUMO

Plasmacytoid leukemia is a common disease of seawater pen-reared chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in British Columbia, Canada, but has also been detected in wild salmon, in freshwater-reared salmon in United States, and in salmon from netpens in Chile. The disease can be transmitted under laboratory conditions, and is associated with a retrovirus, the salmon leukemia virus. However, the proliferating plasmablasts are often infected with the microsporean Enterocytozoon salmonis, which may be an important co-factor in the disease.

Assuntos

Doenças dos Peixes , Leucemia Plasmocitária/veterinária , Microsporea/isolamento & purificação , Retroviridae/isolamento & purificação , Animais , Animais Domésticos , Animais Selvagens , Colúmbia Britânica , Chile , Rim/parasitologia , Rim/virologia , Leucemia Plasmocitária/parasitologia , Leucemia Plasmocitária/virologia , Salmão , Baço/parasitologia , Baço/virologia , Estados Unidos