[Diagnosis of infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) of trout using immunofluorescence]

Until recently, demonstration of infectious pancreatic necrosis was conditioned by the isolation of virus. By means of the immunofluorescence method it is possible to make a rapid and accurate diagnosis, as well as to determine the development of infection. In acute cases, the virus in fry was demonstrated mainly in the cytoplasm of epithelial cells of guts; in Pd1-2 trout, the virus was proved in the cytoplasm of epithelial cells of primary kidney tubules and in the cytoplasm of epithelial cells of pancreatic acini. In all cases the virus occurrence demonstrated by immunofluorescence was in correlation with the results achieved by cultivation methods.