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PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-640
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal health Subprogram: production of AQUAVETPLAN disease strategy manual for viral haemorrhagic septicaemia

In the May 2000 Budget, the Federal Government announced its Building a National Approach to Animal and Plant Health program. This initiative seeks to maintain Australia’s status as a sought after supplier of high quality, ‘clean, green’ agricultural produce. Within this...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Environment
Environment

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: development of diagnostic and reference reagents for epizootic haematopoietic necrosis virus of finfish

Project number: 2003-621
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $140,124.00
Principal Investigator: Richard Whittington
Organisation: University of Sydney (USYD)
Project start/end date: 27 Feb 2003 - 30 Oct 2004
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Need

Relationship to R&D plans and strategies
In the May 2000 Budget, the Federal Government announced its Building a National Approach to Animal and Plant Health program to maintain Australia’s status as a source of high quality agricultural produce with work on aquatic animal health to be funded via AFFA through the FRDC Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram. Following stakeholder consultations, seven projects focusing on the development of improved diagnostic methods for diseases of fish, crustaceans and molluscs were funded under this Subprogram. The Subprogram recently requested advice from aquatic animal health specialists in Australia on priority suggestions for the remaining uncommitted funds. The ‘Maintenance of reagent stocks for diagnosis of important diseases e.g. EHN’ was identified by this forum as one of a number of high priority issues and subsequently forwarded to the Subprogram. The Subprogram’s Steering Committee and Scientific Advisory Committee supported this and other suggestions because of their national significance. This application is made in response to this need.

Pragmatic need
The International Reference Laboratory for EHNV provides research and diagnostic referral services to fish health laboratories in Australia and other countries. Reagents have been supplied upon request for more than 10 years. Research on protocols for improved viral detection and differentiation from related viruses is ongoing, and has been published in high quality journals. These protocols are supplied, together with reference reagents, to any diagnostic laboratory upon request. As many of these original antibody reagents were prepared in 1989-1992, they are deemed likely to be near the end of their shelf life, or stocks of quality-controlled batches are almost exhausted. Furthermore, new protocols have recently been developed using modern tools of molecular biology (Marsh et al 2002 rapid differentiation of Australian, European and American ranaviruses based on variation in major capsid protein gene sequence. Mol.Cell. Probes 16:137-151). For routine use these require development of new reagents, for example standardized DNA solutions.

This project is an operation to replenish stocks of reagents for existing tests and to create stocks for the more newly developed tests and as such is a one-off request. In future we aim to meet costs by charging for supply of reagents, something that OIE Fish Diseases Commission has agreed may be necessary to support reference laboratory activities. Stocks of antibody reagents produced in this project are likely to be viable and sufficient for 15 years assuming freeze drying is successful and current levels of demand, but this will also be dependent on future demand, which is not easily predicted.

Objectives

1. To provide quality-controlled antibody reagents and protocols to detect EHNV
2. To provide quality controlled DNA reagents and protocols to differentiate EHNV from related viruses including BIV
3. To provide stocks of reference-strain EHNV and fish tissues containing reference-strain EHNV as controls for diagnostic testing
4. To develop and assess new storage conditions, guidelines for reconsitution and shelf life for antibody and DNA reagents
Environment
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-665
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: enhancement of the emergency disease management capability in Victoria - adapting the AQUAVETPLAN control centre management manual

In the past 20 years, many fisheries and aquaculture industries around the world have suffered major production losses through the impact of disease epidemics. To date, Australia has avoided many of these epidemics and retains a favourable disease status, which facilitates international trade and...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-011
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health and Biosecurity Subprogram: Disinfection measures to support biosecurity for infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) at aquaculture facilities

Megalocytiviruses are a group of closely related viruses that cause mass mortalities in both marine and freshwater aquaculture. They are of global importance as they are listed by the World Animal Health Organization (OIE). They are difficult to control as they infect over 125 fish species and...
ORGANISATION:
University of Sydney (USYD)

TSGA IPA: The Australian Aquatic Animal Health and Vaccine Centre: First Phase to Establish Atlantic Salmon Biosecure Fish Facility Capabilities and Develop Strategy for an Australian Centre of Excellence

Project number: 2013-051
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $1,694,600.00
Principal Investigator: Jeremy Carson
Organisation: Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE TAS)
Project start/end date: 23 Feb 2014 - 1 Aug 2015
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Need

Commercial in confidence. To know more about this project please contact FRDC.

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