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| What type of virus is SVCV?
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A rhabdovirus.
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| What vectors can transmit the disease between fish?
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- Leeches, lice and blood sucking parasites
- Crustaceans
- Annelids
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| What is the common clinical presentation
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- A fish swimming on its side or sitting on the bottom if its pond/tank.
- May have darkened skin and/or fins with pinpoint haemorrhages
- Visible mucoid casts coming from its vent
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| How should diagnostic samples be sent to the laboratory?
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- On ice or refrigerated
- Immediately
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| What are the common post-mortem findings?
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- Enlarged, haemorrhagic swim bladder
- Enlarged spleen
- Swollen, oedematous organs
- Casts in the renal tubules
- Pericarditis
- Perivasculitis
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