Table 2 Number of samples for each species that (i) tested non-negative for infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) by RT-qPCR1 and that produced sequences by conventional PCR for (ii) segment 6 and (iii) segment 8
Fish species | Farmed fish | Wild fish | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Common name | Scientific name | n | RT-qPCR | Conventional PCR seg. 8 sequence | Conventional PCR seg. 6 sequence | n | RT-qPCR | Conventional PCR seg. 8 sequence | Conventional PCR seg. 6 sequence |
Atlantic salmon | Salmo salar | 334 | 9 | 18 | 132 | ||||
Chinook salmon | Oncorhynchus tshawytscha | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Coho salmon | Oncorhynchus kisutch | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
Sockeye salmon | Oncorhynchus nerka | 256 | 3 | 7 | 2 | ||||
Kokanee | Oncorhynchus nerka | 1 | 1 | 1 | Na | ||||
Pink salmon | Oncorhynchus gorbuscha | 118 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
Chum salmon | Oncorhynchus keta | 68 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Steelhead trout | Oncorhynchus mykiss | 46 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 0 | Na | Na |
Cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarkii | 18 | 0 | 83 | 13 | ||||
Chum mackerel | Scomber japonicus | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Pacific herring | Clupea pallasi | 44 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Sea louse | Lepeophtheirus salmonis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Total | 397 | 11 | 21 | 13 | 709 | 9 | 29 | 17 | |