“…Many methods have been developed for detection and diagnosis of SVCV, including cell culture isolation and recognition of virions by electron microscopy, immunoassays such as immunofluorescence assay (IFA), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and immunohistochemistry, and PCR techniques (Ahne et al, 1998(Ahne et al, , 2002Oreshkova et al, 1999;Koutná et al, 2003). Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), as useful tools, have been used widely for development of effective diagnosis of fish viral pathogens, such as infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV; Schultz et al, 1985), infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV; Wolski et al, 1986), viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV; Sanz et al, 1992), epizootic hematopoietic necrosis virus (EHNV; Monini and Ruggeri, 2002), and so on. Concerning SVCV, mAbs specific against the SVCV had been recently developed and applied to detect the viral antigens by sandwich ELISA (Bing et al, 2007;Reschova et al, 2007).…”