Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Exploring the role of biofilm and protein-foam to reduce the spread of fish pathogens in the aquaculture industry Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Vidar Aspehaug Coordinator email Vidar.Aspehaug@bio.uib.no
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2010 End year 2013 Funding (€) € 201,511 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/project/FORISS/200498?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=2370&Geografi.2=Ukjent+Kommune&source=FORISS&projectId=173376 Summary Next after oil, fish is today the largest export article and has a great economic importance for Norway and in particular the coastal areas of Norway. Unfortunately, the aquaculture industry experience great losses every year due to viral diseases. Preliminary studies performed by the industrial partners of this project indicate that biofilm and protein foam can contain significant amounts of virus, and can probably assist in virus dispersion. Biofilm has become a field of increasing studies the later years, although surprisingly few studies involving biofilms in the aquaculture industry have been published. Few, if any industries are as exposed to biofilms as the aquaculture industry, as all surfaces submerged in water are rapidly covered by a biofilm. Most studies so far focus on biofilms in water distribution systems and dental health aspects, as well as biofilms on surgery implants, where they pose a serious health risk. The common knowledge from these studies is that bacterial and viral pathogens can bind to biofilms, remain infective for a prolonged time, accumulate, and find shelter from antibiotics and disinfections. When it comes to protein-foam, little information is available on both the components and the relevance of protein-foam for the spread of disease agents. The basic idea of this project is to determine the role of these two biological materials for the transmission of pathogens, including Infectious Pancreas Necrosis Virus (IPNV), Infectious Salmon Anaemia Virus (ISAV), and Pancreas Disease Virus (PDV), in the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) aquaculture industry. Of particular interest is the capability of biofilm and protein-foam to bind and accumulate these viruses, and to provide protection of the virus from degeneration
Keywords
Fish;
Disease;
Open sea aquaculture;
Biofilm;
Cage aquaculture;
Salmon;
Land-based aquaculture;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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