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Tilapia Lake Virus disease (TiLVD)
- Etiological agent
o Tilapia Lake Virus disease (TiLVD) is caused by Tilapia tilapine virus. Currently, TiLV has been categorized as a distinct family called Amnoonviridae, belonging to the genus Tilapinevirus (Adams et al., 2017), which is an enveloped, negative-sense single strand RNA virus with a genome composed of ten segments.
o TiLV infection can be transmitted horizontally through physical contact, mucus, feed and\ or water. It is believed that intragastric route is the primary route of infection (Pierezan et al., 2019). The virus can be transferred vertically from an asymptomatic adult carrier to their offsprings (Dong et al., 2020)
