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Couch, John A. 1976. Attempts to Increase Baculovirus Prevalence in Shrimp by Chemical Exposure. In: Tumors in Aquatic Animals. Clyde J. Dawe, Dante G. Scarpelli, and Sefton R. Wellings, Editors. S. Karger, Basel. 20:304-314. (ERL,GB 240). (Progress in Experimental Tumor Research; v. 20)

Little information is available concerning interactions between pollutant chemicals and viruses in aquatic animals. Samples of pink shrimp (Penaeus duorarum) with various enzootic levels of a natural baculovirus infection were experimentally exposed to low levels of Aroclor 1254, a polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), mirex, cadmium, and methoxychlor in the laboratory. No consistent pattern of increase in prevalence of virus was found, and no indication of tumor induction was detected.

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