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Suspected viral erythrocytic necrosis (VEN) in the intertidal fish Mauligobius maderensis from Madeira, Portugal
Suspected viral erythrocytic necrosis (VEN) was detected in two specimens of the
intertidal fish Mauligobius maderensis (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Madeira, Portugal. While
one host was lightly infected, the other showed intraerythrocytic cytoplasmic inclusions
within all mature erythrocytes examined. The inclusions were round to oval, 0-8-2-0 |im in
diameter, and most were associated with dense eosinophilic granular areas of various
sizes and shapes. Up to three of these granular regions accompanied each inclusion body,
but they were sometimes widely separated from it. In a number of infected erythrocytes,
a granular halo was observed surrounding the nucleus. The cytoplasm enclosed by the
halo often had a different refringence from that outside. None of the 120 other fishes
examined from Madeira, representing 43 species of intertidal, pelagic, and deep-sea
origin, had detectable infections.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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