Blar i forfatter Doktorgradsavhandlinger (BFE-fak) "Skjesol, Astrid"
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Studies of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) and immune evasion strategies
Skjesol, Astrid (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2009-10-23)Infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) is a highly contagious disease which causes huge economic loss to the salmon farming industry world wide. The causative agent, the IPN virus (IPNV), is a dsRNA, non-enveloped virus with two genomic segments encoding five viral proteins, VP1-VP5. <br>Available vaccines against this disease give only partial protection. In order to optimize vaccine efficacies, ...