Is There Any Species Specificity in Infections with Aquatic Animal Herpesviruses?The Koi Herpesvirus (KHV): An Alloherpesvirus Model

Sven M Bergmann^1*, Michael Cieslak¹, Dieter Fichtner¹, Juliane Dabels², Sean J Monaghan³, Qing Wang⁴, Weiwei Zeng⁴ and Jolanta Kempter⁵

¹FLI Insel Riems, Südufer 10, 17493 Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

²University of Rostock, Aquaculture and Sea Ranching, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 6, Rostock 18059, Germany

³Aquatic Vaccine Unit, Institute of Aquaculture, School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK

⁴Pearl-River Fisheries Research Institute, Xo. 1 Xingyu Reoad, Liwan District, Guangzhou 510380, P.R. China

⁵West Pomeranian Technical University, K. Królewicza 4, 71-550, Szczecin, Poland

^*Corresponding Author: Sven M Bergmann, FLI Insel Riems, Südufer 10 17493 Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany, Tel: +49 3835171103, Fax: +49 3835171226 Email: