Estrategia de prevención para la infección viral con Necrosis Infecciosa Hipodérmica y Hematopoyética en el cultivo de camarón.

The Infectious Hypodermal and Hematopoietic Necrosis virus has been responsible in the last 30 years for the decrease in production and the low survival of some species of farmed penaeid shrimp. Due to its increase in recent years, this illness is now the subject of intense debates and investigations on a global scale. Although Cuba is not affected by the disease, there are great concerns on the part of the competent authorities as regards the movements in and out of their country of those living and refrigerated organisms. The present study was carried out to determine specific biosafety lines for this virus in Penaeus vannamei shrimp farming. Although matrix methods are common in biological risk analysis, the three-dimensional risk matrix is more comprehensive because it includes the role of defenses in the accidental sequences that represent the introduction and disease spread. To apply the method, the code SECUREMR-FMEA was used. The results identify the most contributing risks for shrimp farming in the Cuban scenario based on the degradation of defenses, which characterize good practices in an ideal case, as well as describe the most important defense measures in such conditions. The use of this method and its results constitute a novelty in the field of biosafety research. The study assists in developing a specialized biosafety strategy for this shrimp disease, which poses a significant financial danger to this productive region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]