We are very proud to announce the publication of a fantastic review article “Experimental Infection Models and Their Usefulness for White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) Research in Shrimp” in the journal Viruses MDPI by our PhD student Natsja Cox. This article critically reviews in great detail laboratory models used in White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) research and describes the most important factors to be taken into account when choosing research models adapted to specific research aims and needs.
This exceptional article aims at helping the WSSV scientific community uniformizing the conditions currently used to advance knowledge on this virus, which is for more than three decades hindering the shrimp farming industry and for which there is still no cure. Although the main subject of the paper is WSSV, we believe the core principles of research model development and selection can easily be applied to research on other shrimp (and even other farm species) diseases.
We truly hope that this article can be used by the scientific community as a sort of manual for fundamental and applied research on shrimp diseases.
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