Pathological pigmentation in cardiac tissues of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) with cardiomyopathy syndrome

Table 1 Overview of the material collected from farmed Atlantic salmon subjected to four different controlled experimental virus infections trials and uninfected controls reared in parallel.

Experiment	Sampling time point and number of fish collected
CMS
Time of sampling	3 wpc	12 wpc	24 wpc	27 wpc
Infected fish	5 (1*)	5	5	6
Control fish	2	2	3	3
PD
Time of sampling	0 wpc	3 wpc	6 wpc
Infected fish		10	10
Control fish	10
HSMI
Time of sampling	0 wpc	2 wpc	6 wpc	10 wpc
Infected fish		5	5	5
Control fish	5
ISA
Time of sampling	0 wpc	8 dpc	3 wpc
Infected fish		5	5
Control fish	3		2

Wpc = weeks post challenge. Dpc = days post challenge. (1*) Due to degradation of RNA in the CMS-material, we were only able to include one heart sample from 3 wpc.

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