Table 1.

 Isolation and identification of fish viruses inducing Office International des Epizooties (OIE) notifiable diseases, according to the Diagnostic Manual for Aquatic Animal Diseases (OIE, 2001). The OIE notifiable viruses are epizootic haematopoietic necrosis virus (EHNV), infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV), Oncorhynchus masou virus (OMV), spring viraemia of carp virus (SVCV), and viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus (VHSV). The viruses inducing other significant diseases are channel catfish herpesviruses (CCHV), nervous necrosis virus (NNV), infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV), infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV), red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV) and white sturgeon iridovirus (WSIV)