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Chapter 1<br />

Field methods: Diagnosis of white spot syndrome depends mainly on the<br />

demonstration of eosinophilic to basophilic inclusion bodies (IB) in stained<br />

fresh squashes or impression smears of ectodermal <strong>and</strong> mesodermal tissues.<br />

Feulgen-positive intranuclear IB may be identified in cuticular epithelial cells<br />

<strong>and</strong> connective tissue cells. The gills <strong>and</strong> epithelium under the carapace are<br />

excised, stained with haemotoxylin <strong>and</strong> eosin, mounted <strong>and</strong> then viewed as<br />

squash preparations (Flegel <strong>and</strong> Sriuriairatana, 1993). WSSV infection may<br />

be confirmed by the demonstration of rod-shaped, non-occluded virions in<br />

the intranuclear IB of affected cells using electron microscopy (Lightner,<br />

1996). There are not many field tests available for the detection of WSSV. A<br />

reverse passive latex agglutination assay (RPLA) has been proposed as a<br />

useful method for virus detection in the culture shrimp pond (Okumura et<br />

al., 2004). Other cost-effective diagnostic assays using fluoresceinated<br />

microspheres <strong>and</strong> latex beads coated with anti-WSSV serum have proved to<br />

detect the virus as early as 24 h post infection in shrimps (Sathish et al.,<br />

2004).<br />

Serological methods: These methods are based on monoclonal or<br />

polyclonal antibodies produced against viral antigens or recombinant viral<br />

antigens. Monoclonal <strong>and</strong> polyclonal antibodies produced against VP28 or<br />

rVP28 were used to develop several methods including<br />

immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry (Escobedo-Bonilla et al., 2005,<br />

2007), immunoblot assays (You et al., 2002), immunochromatographic test<br />

strips (Sithigorngul et al., 2006), enzyme linked immunosorbent assay<br />

(ELISA), <strong>and</strong> western blotting (Nadala et al., 1997; Yogan<strong>and</strong>han et al., 2004).<br />

Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) have been produced against WSSV. A<br />

28 kDa envelop protein of WSSV, encoded by the VP28 gene has been<br />

extensively used for the preparation of MAbs. These MAbs developed<br />

against WSSV are the basis of a number of detection methods. MAbs have<br />

also been used to develop an antigen-capture ELISA (Ac-ELISA) test, which<br />

<strong>Molecular</strong> <strong>Characterization</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Gene</strong> <strong>Expression</strong> <strong>Profiling</strong> of Antimicrobial Peptides in Penaeid Shrimps<br />

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