The ICDSA can provide WSSV inoculum prepared from the WSSV-TW strain (GenBank No. AF440570) which was originally isolated from a batch of WSSV-infected moribund farmed Penaeus monodon collected in southern of Taiwan in 1994. The ICDSA keep these original WSSV-infected Penaeus monodon at −80 °C until used for the preparation of WSSV inoculum.
Brief protocol of WSSV inoculum preparation was described in ICDSA technological platforms of ICDSA website.
We offer 1,000 aliquots of WSSV inoculum. The volume of each aliquot is 12.5 ul. Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in these WSSV inoculum.