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Herpes Virus In Juvenile Pacific Oysters Crassostrea Gigas From Tomales Bay, California, Coincides With Summer Mortality Episodes, Cs Friedman, Rm Estes, Na Stokes, Ca Burge, Js Hargove, Bj Barber, Ra Elston, Em Burreson, Kimberly S. Reece
Herpes Virus In Juvenile Pacific Oysters Crassostrea Gigas From Tomales Bay, California, Coincides With Summer Mortality Episodes, Cs Friedman, Rm Estes, Na Stokes, Ca Burge, Js Hargove, Bj Barber, Ra Elston, Em Burreson, Kimberly S. Reece
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Pacific Crassostrea gigas and eastern C. virginica oysters were examined between June 2002 and April 2003 from 8 locations along the east, west and south USA coasts for oyster herpes virus (OsHV) infections using the A primer set in a previously developed PCR test. Only surviving Pacific oysters from a mortality event in Tomales Bay, California, USA, where annual losses of oysters have occurred each summer since 1993, were infected with a herpes-like virus in 2002. PCR examination using template amounts of both 50 and 500 ng were essential for OsHV detection. Sequence analysis indicated that the Tomales Bay OsHV …