Correction to: Piscine orthoreovirus sequences in escaped farmed Atlantic salmon in Washington and British Columbia (Virology Journal (2019) 16: 41 DOI: 10.1186/s12985-019-1148-2)

Abstract

In the original publication of the article [1], as the quotation below was included without specific permission from Dr. Gary Marty, which is against the Virology Journal guidelines for the citation of unpublished data, all authors request to delete it from their article. The largest number of farmed Atlantic salmon tested for PRV in BC-Canada found PRV in approximately 80% of 146 pooled samples from 539 Atlantic salmon tested in 2010 (Marty and Bidulka, 2013, unpublished observations).