Establishing causal link between an infectious agent and mortalities in marine molluscan aquaculture on the example of Bonamia ostreae and Herpèsvirosis in oysters : proposal of a causal grid analysis

Type Proceedings paper
Date 2003-11-17
Language English
Author(s) Thebault Anne, Cochennec NathalieORCID, Arzul IsabelleORCID, Renault Tristan
Meeting Xème ISVEE International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics
Source Actes Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, Vin del Mar, Chili 17-21 novembre 2003
Keyword(s) Herpesvirus, Bonamia ostrea, Crassostrea gigas, Ostrea edulis, Marine pathology, Ecology, Epidemiology, Infectious agents, Molluscan aquaculture
Abstract In marine molluscan aqauculture, infectious agents are regularly cited in literature associated with mass mortalities as emergin diseases, but the causal link is often based on very few argumeents. 24 ways to demonstrate causal links from epidemiolgical, ecological and marine pathology literature feasible for marine molluscs are given. Those criteria were applied to the ewample of Bonamia ostreae for Ostrea edulis and Herpesvirus for spats and larvae of Crassostrea gigas. Three principles could be applied in marine field for choosing criteria wich should be taken in priority : the demonstration must be given at three levels of organization, organ individual, population, the demonstration must keeps maximum epidemiological criterias, and then mixes experimental and field work. Results shown that the demonstration is done for Bonamia ostreae but still difficult and not completely done for Herpesvirus on spats.
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Thebault Anne, Cochennec Nathalie, Arzul Isabelle, Renault Tristan (2003). Establishing causal link between an infectious agent and mortalities in marine molluscan aquaculture on the example of Bonamia ostreae and Herpèsvirosis in oysters : proposal of a causal grid analysis. Actes Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, Vin del Mar, Chili 17-21 novembre 2003. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/3341/