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a b s t r a c tAcute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND), also called early mortality syndrome (EMS), is arecently emergent shrimp bacterial disease that has resulted in substantial economic losses since 2009.AHPND is known to be caused by strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus that contain a unique virulenceplasmid, but the pathology of the disease is still unclear. In this study, we show that AHPND-causingstrains of V. parahaemolyticus secrete the plasmideencoded binary toxin PirABvp into the culture medium.We further determined that, after shrimp were challenged with AHPND-causing bacteria, thebacteria initially colonized the stomach, where they started to produce PirABvp toxin. At the same earlytime point (6 hpi), PirBvp toxin, but not PirAvp toxin, was detected in the hepatopancreas, and thecharacteristic histopathological signs of AHPND, including sloughing of the epithelial cells of the hepatopancreatictubules, were also seen. Although some previous studies have found that both componentsof the binary PirABvp toxin are necessary to induce a toxic effect, our present results are consistent withother studies which have suggested that PirBvp alone may be sufficient to cause cellular damage. At latertime points, the bacteria and PirAvp and PirBvp toxins were all detected in the hepatopancreas. We alsoshow that Raman spectroscopy “Whole organism fingerprints” were unable to distinguish betweenAHPND-causing and non-AHPND causing strains. Lastly, by using minimum inhibitory concentrations,we found that both virulent and non-virulent V. parahaemolyticus strains were resistant to several antibiotics,suggesting that the use of antibiotics in shrimp culture should be more strictly regulated
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