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Summary

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  • 22 November 2019
  • Datasheet Type(s)
  • Animal Disease
  • Preferred Scientific Name
  • white tail disease
  • Overview

  • White tail disease (WTD) is a disease of the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii caused by Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV) and its associate extra small virus (XSV) (...

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Identity

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Preferred Scientific Name

  • white tail disease

International Common Names

  • English: white muscle disease (Macrobrachium rosenbergii); whitish muscle disease

English acronym

  • WTD

Overview

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White tail disease (WTD) is a disease of the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii caused by Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV) and its associate extra small virus (XSV) (Qian et al., 2003). The clinical sign of disease is a milky whitish appearance in larvae/postlarvae/early juveniles (Arcier et al., 1999). First reported in the French West Indies, the disease has since been found in Taiwan, China, India, Thailand, Australia and Malaysia (Hameed and Bonami, 2012). Mortalities may reach 100% (Qian et al., 2003; Sudthongkong, 2007) and the virus causes significant economic losses in hatcheries and farms (Bonami and Sri Widada, 2011).

White tail disease is on the list of diseases notifiable to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). For further information on this disease from OIE, see the website: www.oie.int

Host Animals

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Animal nameContextLife stageSystem
Macrobrachium rosenbergii (giant freshwater prawn)

Distribution

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First reported in the French West Indies (Arcier et al., 1999), white tail disease has since occurred in China (Qian et al., 2003), India (Hameed et al., 2004), Thailand (Sudthongkong, 2007), Taiwan (Wang et al., 2008), Australia (Owens et al., 2009) and Malaysia (Tayebeh Azam Saedi et al., 2012).

Distribution Table

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The distribution in this summary table is based on all the information available. When several references are cited, they may give conflicting information on the status. Further details may be available for individual references in the Distribution Table Details section which can be selected by going to Generate Report.

Last updated: 07 Jan 2022
Continent/Country/Region Distribution Last Reported Origin First Reported Invasive Reference Notes

Africa

AlgeriaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2020
BotswanaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2018
Cabo VerdeAbsentJul-Dec-2019
EgyptAbsentJul-Dec-2019
EswatiniAbsentJul-Dec-2019
GhanaAbsentJul-Dec-2019
KenyaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
LesothoAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
LibyaAbsentJul-Dec-2019
MadagascarAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2020
MauritiusAbsentJan-Jun-2019
MoroccoAbsentJan-Jun-2020
MozambiqueAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
NigeriaAbsentJul-Dec-2019
Saint HelenaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
SeychellesAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2018
SomaliaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2018
South AfricaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
SudanAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
TunisiaAbsentJul-Dec-2019

Asia

AfghanistanAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
ArmeniaAbsentJul-Dec-2020
AzerbaijanAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2018
BangladeshAbsentJul-Dec-2020
BruneiAbsentJul-Dec-2019
ChinaAbsentJul-Dec-2019
GeorgiaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2018
Hong KongAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2020
IndiaPresent
IndonesiaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
IraqAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
IsraelAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2020
JapanAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2020
JordanAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2018
KuwaitAbsentJan-Jun-2019
KyrgyzstanAbsentJan-Jun-2019
MalaysiaPresent
MaldivesAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
MongoliaAbsentJul-Dec-2018
MyanmarAbsentJul-Dec-2019
PakistanAbsentJan-Jun-2020
PhilippinesAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
Saudi ArabiaAbsentJul-Dec-2019
SingaporeAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2020
South KoreaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
TaiwanAbsentJul-Dec-2019
TajikistanAbsentJan-Jun-2019
ThailandPresent, LocalizedJul-Dec-2019
United Arab EmiratesAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2020
VietnamAbsentJul-Dec-2019

Europe

AndorraAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
Bosnia and HerzegovinaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
CroatiaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
CyprusAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
CzechiaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
DenmarkAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2020
EstoniaAbsentJul-Dec-2019
Faroe IslandsAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2018
FinlandAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
GreeceAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
HungaryAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
IcelandAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
IrelandAbsentJul-Dec-2019
ItalyAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2020
LatviaAbsentJul-Dec-2020
LiechtensteinAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
LithuaniaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
MaltaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
MoldovaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2020
NetherlandsAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
North MacedoniaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
NorwayAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
PortugalAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
SerbiaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
SloveniaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
SpainAbsentJul-Dec-2020
SwedenAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
SwitzerlandAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2020
UkraineAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
United KingdomAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019

North America

BahamasAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2018
BarbadosAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2020
BelizeAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
CanadaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
Costa RicaAbsentJul-Dec-2019
CubaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
El SalvadorAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
GreenlandAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2018
MexicoAbsentJul-Dec-2019
NicaraguaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
PanamaAbsentJan-Jun-2019
United StatesAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019

Oceania

AustraliaAbsentJul-Dec-2019
Cook IslandsAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
Federated States of MicronesiaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
FijiAbsentJan-Jun-2019
French PolynesiaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
KiribatiAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
Marshall IslandsAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
New CaledoniaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
New ZealandAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
PalauAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
Papua New GuineaAbsentJan-Jun-2019
SamoaAbsentJan-Jun-2019
TongaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2020
VanuatuAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019

South America

ArgentinaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
BoliviaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
BrazilAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2019
ChileAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
ColombiaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
EcuadorAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019
Falkland IslandsAbsent, No presence record(s)Jul-Dec-2018
UruguayAbsentJul-Dec-2020
VenezuelaAbsent, No presence record(s)Jan-Jun-2019

References

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Arcier JM; Herman F; Lightner DV; Redman RM; Mari J; Bonami JR, 1999. A viral disease associated with mortalities in hatchery-reared postlarvae of the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 38(3):177-181.

Bonami JR; Sri Widada J, 2011. Viral diseases of the giant fresh water prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii: a review. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 106(1):131-142. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WJV-51W6NYJ-D&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F2011&_rdoc=13&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_origin=browse&_zone=rslt_list_item&_srch=doc-info(%23toc%236888%232011%23998939998%232846757%23FLA%23display%23Volume)&_cdi=6888&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=15&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=04f228f1019a79698d585e38e316f26e&searchtype=a

Hameed ASS; Bonami JR, 2012. White tail disease of freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii. Indian Journal of Virology, 23(2):134-140. http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13337-012-0087-y

Hameed ASS; Yoganandhan K; Widada JS; Bonami JR, 2004. Studies on the occurrence of Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus and extra small virus-like particles associated with white tail disease of M. rosenbergii in India by RT-PCR detection. Aquaculture, 238(1/4):127-133.

Owens L; Fauce Kla; Juntunen K; Hayakijkosol O; Zeng ChaoShu, 2009. Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus disease (white tail disease) in Australia. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 85(3):175-180.

Qian D; Shi Z; Zhang S; Cao Z; Liu W; Li L; Xie Y; Cambournac I; Bonami JR, 2003. Extra small virus-like particles (XSV) and nodavirus associated with whitish muscle disease in the giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii. Journal of Fish Diseases, 26(9):521-527.

Sudthongkong C, 2007. Isolation and identification of viral pathogens in diseased giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) larvae in Thailand. In: Proceedings of the 45th Kasetsart University Annual Conference, Kasetsart, 30-January - 2 February, 2007. Subject: Fisheries. Bangkok, Thailand: Kasetsart University, 293-301.

Tayebeh Azam Saedi; Hassan Moeini; Tan WenSiang; Khatijah Yusoff; Hassan Mohd Daud; Chu KuaBeng; Tan SoonGuan; Subha Bhassu, 2012. Detection and phylogenetic profiling of nodavirus associated with white tail disease in Malaysian Macrobrachium rosenbergii de man. Molecular Biology Reports, 39(5):5785-5790. http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11033-011-1389-7/fulltext.html

Wang CS; Chang JS; Wen CM; Shih HH; Chen SN, 2008. Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus infection in M. rosenbergii (de Man) with white tail disease cultured in Taiwan. Journal of Fish Diseases, 31(6):415-422. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2761.2008.00921.x

Distribution References

Hameed A S S, Yoganandhan K, Widada J S, Bonami J R, 2004. Studies on the occurrence of Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus and extra small virus-like particles associated with white tail disease of M. rosenbergii in India by RT-PCR detection. Aquaculture. 238 (1/4), 127-133. DOI:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2004.06.009

OIE, 2018. World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS): Jul-Dec. In: OIE-WAHIS Platform, Paris, France: OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health). unpaginated. https://wahis.oie.int/

OIE, 2018a. World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS): Jan-Jun. In: OIE-WAHIS Platform, Paris, France: OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health). unpaginated. https://wahis.oie.int

OIE, 2019. World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS): Jul-Dec. In: OIE-WAHIS Platform, Paris, France: OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health). unpaginated. https://wahis.oie.int/

OIE, 2019a. World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS): Jan-Jun. In: OIE-WAHIS Platform, Paris, France: OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health). unpaginated. https://wahis.oie.int/

OIE, 2020. World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS): Jul-Dec. In: OIE-WAHIS Platform, Paris, France: OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health). unpaginated. https://wahis.oie.int/

OIE, 2020a. World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS). Jan-Jun. In: OIE-WAHIS Platform, Paris, France: OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health). unpaginated. https://wahis.oie.int/

Owens L, Fauce K la, Juntunen K, Hayakijkosol O, Zeng ChaoShu, 2009. Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus disease (white tail disease) in Australia. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 85 (3), 175-180. DOI:10.3354/dao02086

Qian D, Shi Z, Zhang S, Cao Z, Liu W, Li L, Xie Y, Cambournac I, Bonami J R, 2003. Extra small virus-like particles (XSV) and nodavirus associated with whitish muscle disease in the giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii. Journal of Fish Diseases. 26 (9), 521-527. DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2761.2003.00486.x

Sudthongkong C, 2007. Isolation and identification of viral pathogens in diseased giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) larvae in Thailand. In: Proceedings of the 45th Kasetsart University Annual Conference, Kasetsart, 30-January - 2 February, 2007. Subject: Fisheries. Bangkok, Thailand: Kasetsart University. 293-301.

Tayebeh Azam Saedi, Hassan Moeini, Tan WenSiang, Khatijah Yusoff, Hassan Mohd Daud, Chu KuaBeng, Tan SoonGuan, Subha Bhassu, 2012. Detection and phylogenetic profiling of nodavirus associated with white tail disease in Malaysian Macrobrachium rosenbergii de man. Molecular Biology Reports. 39 (5), 5785-5790. http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11033-011-1389-7/fulltext.html DOI:10.1007/s11033-011-1389-7

Wang C S, Chang J S, Wen C M, Shih H H, Chen S N, 2008. Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus infection in M. rosenbergii (de Man) with white tail disease cultured in Taiwan. Journal of Fish Diseases. 31 (6), 415-422. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2761.2008.00921.x

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