Table 1.

Viruses infecting finfish discovered using traditional cell culture methods.

Virus	Family	Nucleic acid	Clinical signs first reported		Etiological virus identified and characterized
			Year	References	Year*	References
A: VIRUSES INFECTING FINFISH
Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus	Birnaviridae	dsRNA	1940	McGonigle, 1941	1960	Wolf et al., 1960
Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus	Rhabdoviridae	(−)ssRNA	1950s	Jensen, 1965	1962	Jensen, 1965
Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus	Rhabdoviridae	(−)ssRNA	1950s	Rucker et al., 1953	1969	Wingfield et al., 1969
Nervous necrosis virus	Nodaviridae	(+)ssRNA	1970s	MacKinnon, 1987	1990	Glazebrook et al., 1990; Mori et al., 1992
Salmonid alphavirus	Togaviridae	(+)ssRNA	1976	Munro et al., 1984	1995	Boucher et al., 1994; Castric et al., 1997
Infectious salmon anemia virus	Orthomyxoviridae	(−)ssRNA	1984	Thorud and Djupvik, 1988	1995	Dannevig et al., 1995; Mjaaland et al., 1997
Hirame rhabdovirus	Rhabdoviridae	(−)ssRNA	1984	Kimura et al., 1986	1984	Kimura et al., 1986
Piscine myocarditis syndrome virus	Totiviridae	dsRNA	1985	Amin and Trasti, 1988	2010	Løvoll et al., 2010; Haugland et al., 2011
Epizootic hematopoietic necrosis virus	Iridoviridae	dsDNA	1985	Langdon et al., 1986	1985	Langdon et al., 1986
Spring viremia of carp virus	Rhabdoviridae	(−)ssRNA	2002	Dikkeboom et al., 2004	2002	Dikkeboom et al., 2004
Tilapia lake virus	Orthomyxoviridae	(−)ssRNA	2009	Eyngor et al., 2014	2014	Eyngor et al., 2014

^*Year virus discovered and characterized.