Isolation and Detection of Spherical Viruses from Penaells orientalis K
Abstract: uring the cultivition of Penaeus orientalis K,outbreak of death or slowing down of growth couldoccurred sometimes.tuge amount of dispersive spherical viruses with diameter around 80nm were observed in the midgut cells of those sick shrimps under electron microscope.Hoat cell organelles,such asmitochondria,became over swollen,and even broken.The virus was isolated from the hepotopancreasand digestive tube of the sick shrimp and the viriolls were icosahedron with diameter of 80nm on the av-erage.From infection experiment the corrected mortality was as high as 60%.The salne morphological spherical virus with the same size was also isolated from infected died shrimps digeetive glands andtubes.