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Zhao JZ, Xu LM, Li LF, Ren GM, Shao YZ, Liu Q, Lu TY. Traditional Chinese medicine bufalin inhibits infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus infection in vitro and in vivo. Microbiol Spectr 2024; 12:e0501622. [PMID: 38289115 PMCID: PMC10913368 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.05016-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2024] Open
Abstract
Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) causes infectious hematopoietic necrosis and severe economic losses to salmon and trout aquaculture worldwide. Currently, the only commercial vaccine against IHNV is a DNA vaccine with some biosafety concerns. Hence, more effective vaccines and antiviral drugs are needed to prevent IHNV infection. In this study, 1,483 compounds were screened from a traditional Chinese medicine monomer library, and bufalin showed potential antiviral activity against IHNV. The 50% cytotoxic concentration of bufalin was >20 µM, and the 50% inhibitory concentration was 0.1223 µΜ against IHNV. Bufalin showed the inhibition of diverse IHNV strains in vitro, which confirmed that it had an inhibitory effect against all IHNV strains, rather than random activity against a single strain. The bufalin-mediated block of IHNV infection occurred at the viral attachment and RNA replication stages, but not internalization. Bufalin also inhibited IHNV infection in vivo and significantly increased the survival of rainbow trout compared with the mock drug-treated group, and this was confirmed by in vivo viral load monitoring. Our data showed that the anti-IHNV activity of bufalin was proportional to extracellular Na+ concentration and inversely proportional to extracellular K+ concentration, and bufalin may inhibit IHNV infection by targeting Na+/K+-ATPase. The in vitro and in vivo studies showed that bufalin significantly inhibited IHNV infection and may be a promising candidate drug against the disease in rainbow trout. IMPORTANCE Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) is the pathogen of infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) which outbreak often causes huge economic losses and hampers the healthy development of salmon and trout farming. Currently, there is only one approved DNA vaccine for IHN worldwide, but it faces some biosafety problems. Hence, more effective vaccines and antiviral drugs are needed to prevent IHNV infection. In this study, we report that bufalin, a traditional Chinese medicine, shows potential antiviral activity against IHNV both in vitro and in vivo. The bufalin-mediated block of IHNV infection occurred at the viral attachment and RNA replication stages, but not internalization, and bufalin inhibited IHNV infection by targeting Na+/K+-ATPase. The in vitro and in vivo studies showed that bufalin significantly inhibited IHNV infection and may be a promising candidate drug against the disease in rainbow trout.
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- Jing-Zhuang Zhao
- Heilongjiang River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Harbin, China
- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Animal Diseases and Immune Technology of Heilongjiang Province, Department of Aquatic Animal Diseases and Control, Harbin, China
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- Heilongjiang River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Heilongjiang River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Heilongjiang River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Heilongjiang River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Heilongjiang River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Heilongjiang River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Harbin, China
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Páez DJ, Kurath G, Powers RL, Naish KA, Purcell MK. Local and systemic replicative fitness for viruses in specialist, generalist, and non-specialist interactions with salmonid hosts. J Gen Virol 2024; 105. [PMID: 38180085 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2024] Open
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Host tissues represent diverse resources or barriers for pathogen replicative fitness. We tested whether viruses in specialist, generalist, and non-specialist interactions replicate differently in local entry tissue (fin), and systemic target tissue (kidney) using infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) and three salmonid fish hosts. Virus tissue replication was host specific, but one feature was shared by specialists and the generalist which was uncommon in the non-specialist interactions: high host entry and replication capacity in the local tissue after contact. Moreover, specialists showed increased replication in systemic target tissues early after host contact. By comparing ancestral and derived IHNV viruses, we also characterized replication tradeoffs associated with specialist and generalist evolution. Compared with the ancestral virus, a derived specialist gained early local replicative fitness in the new host but lost replicative fitness in the ancestral host. By contrast, a derived generalist showed small replication losses relative to the ancestral virus in the ancestral host but increased early replication in the local tissue of novel hosts. This study shows that the mechanisms of specialism and generalism are host specific and that local and systemic replication can contribute differently to overall within host replicative fitness for specialist and generalist viruses.
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- David J Páez
- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, Marrowstone Marine Field Station, 616 Marrowstone Point Road, Nordland, WA 98358, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
- U.S. Geological Survey, Forest Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA
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Mattheiss JP, Breyta R, Kurath G, LaDeau SL, Páez DJ, Ferguson PFB. Coproduction and modeling spatial contact networks prevent bias about infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus transmission for Snake River Basin salmonids. J Environ Manage 2023; 334:117415. [PMID: 36780814 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Revised: 01/23/2023] [Accepted: 01/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Much remains unknown about variation in pathogen transmission across the geographic range of a free-ranging fish or animal species and about the influence of movement (associated with husbandry practices or animal behavior) on pathogen transmission. Salmonid hatcheries are an ideal system in which to study these processes. Salmonid hatcheries are managed for endangered species recovery, supplementation of threatened or at-risk fish stocks, support of fisheries, and ecosystem stability. Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) is a rhabdovirus of significant concern to salmon aquaculture. Landscape IHNV transmission dynamics previously had been estimated only for salmonid hatcheries in the Lower Columbia River Basin (LCRB). The objectives of this study were to estimate IHNV transmission dynamics in a unique geographic region, the Snake River Basin (SRB), and to quantitatively estimate the effect of model coproduction on inference because previous assessments of coproduction have been qualitative. In contrast to the LCRB, the SRB has hatchery complexes consisting of a main hatchery and ≥1 satellite facility. Knowledge about hatchery complexes was held by a subset of project researchers but would not have been available to project modelers without coproduction. Project modelers generated and tested multiple versions of Bayesian susceptible-exposedinfected models to realistically represent the SRB and estimate the effect of coproduction. Models estimated the frequency of transmission routes, route-specific infection probabilities, and infection probabilities for combinations of salmonid hosts and IHNV lineages. Model results indicated that in the SRB, avoiding exposure to IHNV-positive adult salmonids is the most important action to prevent juvenile infections. Migrating adult salmonids exposed juvenile cohort-sites most frequently, and the infection probability was greatest following exposure to migrating adults. Without coproduction, the frequency of exposure by migrating adults would have been overestimated by 70 cohort-sites, and the infection probability following exposure to migrating adults would have been underestimated by∼0.09. The coproduced model had less uncertainty in the infection probability if no transmission route could be identified (Bayesian credible interval (BCI) width = 0.12) compared to the model without coproduction (BCI width = 0.34). Evidence for virus lineage MD specialization on steelhead and rainbow trout (both Oncorhynchus mykiss) was apparent without model coproduction. In the SRB, we found a greater probability of virus lineage UC infection in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) compared to in O. mykiss, whereas in the LCRB, UC more clearly exhibited a generalist approach. Coproduction influenced estimates that depended on transmission routes, which operated differently at main hatcheries and satellite sites within hatchery complexes. Hatchery complexes are found outside of the SRB and are not specific to salmonid hatcheries alone. There is great potential for coproduction and modeling spatial contact networks to advance understanding about infectious disease transmission in complex production systems and surrounding free-ranging animal populations.
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- Jeffrey P Mattheiss
- 1325 Science and Engineering Complex, 300 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA.
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98115, USA.
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98115, USA.
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- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY, 12545, USA.
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98115, USA.
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- 1325 Science and Engineering Complex, 300 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA.
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Páez DJ, McKenney D, Purcell MK, Naish KA, Kurath G. Variation in within-host replication kinetics among virus genotypes provides evidence of specialist and generalist infection strategies across three salmonid host species. Virus Evol 2022; 8:veac079. [PMID: 36101884 PMCID: PMC9463992 DOI: 10.1093/ve/veac079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
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Theory of the evolution of pathogen specialization suggests that a specialist pathogen gains high fitness in one host, but this comes with fitness loss in other hosts. By contrast, a generalist pathogen does not achieve high fitness in any host, but gains ecological fitness by exploiting different hosts, and has higher fitness than specialists in nonspecialized hosts. As a result, specialist pathogens are predicted to have greater variation in fitness across hosts, and generalists would have lower fitness variation across hosts. We test these hypotheses by measuring pathogen replicative fitness as within-host viral loads from the onset of infection to the beginning of virus clearance, using the rhabdovirus infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) in salmonid fish. Based on field prevalence and virulence studies, the IHNV subgroups UP, MD, and L are specialists, causing infection and mortality in sockeye salmon, steelhead, and Chinook salmon juveniles, respectively. The UC subgroup evolved naturally from a UP ancestor and is a generalist infecting all three host species but without causing severe disease. We show that the specialist subgroups had the highest peak and mean viral loads in the hosts in which they are specialized, and they had low viral loads in nonspecialized hosts, resulting in large variation in viral load across hosts. Viral kinetics show that the mechanisms of specialization involve the ability to both maximize early virus replication and avoid clearance at later times, with different mechanisms of specialization evident in different host-virus combinations. Additional nuances in the data included different fitness levels for nonspecialist interactions, reflecting different trade-offs for specialist viruses in other hosts. The generalist UC subgroup reached intermediate viral loads in all hosts and showed the smallest variation in fitness across hosts. The evolution of the UC generalist from an ancestral UP sockeye specialist was associated with fitness increases in steelhead and Chinook salmon, but only slight decreases in fitness in sockeye salmon, consistent with low- or no-cost generalism. Our results support major elements of the specialist-generalist theory, providing evidence of a specialist-generalist continuum in a vertebrate pathogen. These results also quantify within-host replicative fitness trade-offs resulting from the natural evolution of specialist and generalist virus lineages in multi-host ecosystems.
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- David J Páez
- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, The University of Washington, 1122 NE Boat St, Box 355020, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, Marrowstone Marine Field Station, 616 Marrowstone Point Road, Nordland, WA 98358, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, 6505 NE 65th Street, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, 6505 NE 65th Street, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, The University of Washington, 1122 NE Boat St, Box 355020, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, 6505 NE 65th Street, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
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Hernandez DG, Kurath G. Shedding Kinetics of Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHNV) in Juvenile Spring- and Fall-Run Chinook Salmon of the Columbia River Basin. Animals (Basel) 2022; 12:ani12151887. [PMID: 35892537 PMCID: PMC9331747 DOI: 10.3390/ani12151887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Revised: 07/15/2022] [Accepted: 07/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Simple Summary When a virus infects a host it reproduces in that host and then sheds from the host in order to find new hosts for more rounds of reproduction. Thus, virus shedding is a critical step in the host-to-host transmission cycles that allow a virus to spread across a landscape and persist over time. In Pacific salmon and trout the virus infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) causes significant disease, with up to 50% mortality in outbreaks in some conservation hatcheries. Chinook salmon have evolved as two distinct life-history types, referred to as spring- and fall Chinook salmon, and they are the most abundant host of IHNV in the Columbia River basin (CRB) of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Here we examined the timing and quantity of virus shedding from both spring-run and fall-run CRB Chinook salmon after controlled exposures to three IHNV strains representing different virus subgroups. We observed rapid shedding kinetics with similar timing for two virus strains in both host types. However, spring Chinook salmon shed much more virus from the UC subgroup than fall fish, suggesting that spring Chinook salmon may play a dominant role in the ecology and maintenance of IHNV in the CRB. Abstract This investigation sought to characterize the shedding of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) in two populations of Columbia River Basin (CRB) Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Juvenile spring- and fall-run Chinook salmon were exposed by immersion to each of three IHN virus strains from the UC, MD, and L subgroups, and then monitored for viral shedding from individual fish for 30 days. Detectable quantities of UC, MD and L IHN virus were shed by a subset of fish from each host population (1–9 out of 10 fish total in each treatment group). Viral shedding kinetics were consistent, with a rapid onset of shedding, peak shedding by 2–3 days, and then a rapid decline to below detectable levels by 7 days’ post-exposure to IHNV. Intraspecies variation was observed as spring Chinook salmon shed more UC virus than fall fish: spring Chinook salmon shed UC virus in greater numbers of fish, with 22-fold higher mean peak shedding magnitude, 33-fold higher mean total virus shed per fish, and 900-fold higher total virus shed per treatment group. The L and MD viruses had comparable shedding at intermediate levels in each host population. All viral shedding occurred well before host mortality began, and shedding magnitude did not correlate with virulence differences. Overall, the greater shedding of UC virus from spring Chinook salmon, combined with low virulence, indicates a uniquely high transmission potential that may explain the predominance of UC viruses in CRB Chinook salmon. This also suggests that spring-run fish may contribute more to the ecology of IHNV in the CRB than fall-run Chinook salmon.
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- Daniel G. Hernandez
- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA;
- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, 6505 Northeast 65th St., Seattle, WA 98115, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, 6505 Northeast 65th St., Seattle, WA 98115, USA
- Correspondence:
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Bendorf CM, Yun SC, Kurath G, Hedrick RP. Comparative Susceptibilities of Selected California Chinook Salmon and Steelhead Populations to Isolates of L Genogroup Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHNV). Animals (Basel) 2022; 12:ani12131733. [PMID: 35804631 PMCID: PMC9264940 DOI: 10.3390/ani12131733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2022] [Revised: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Simple Summary Chinook salmon in California conservation hatcheries have suffered disease outbreaks and significant mortality due to the fish virus infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) since at least the 1940s. Although steelhead trout in California are also occasionally infected with the same virus they do not typically experience disease. In this study the susceptibility of California Chinook salmon and steelhead trout was defined in controlled experiments that exposed groups of juvenile fish to California IHNV strains (L genogroup). The results confirmed high mortality among Chinook salmon but very low mortality of steelhead trout, despite identical virus exposures. Tests of varying conditions found increasing mortality of Chinook salmon with increasing virus dose, but reduced mortality at higher temperatures or with increased age or size of fish. Among Chinook salmon that survived virus exposure the persistence of virus was detected in one fish 8 months after virus exposure. These findings demonstrate that L genogroup IHNV in California has host specificity for Chinook salmon, and provide an understanding of factors that contribute to disease epidemics in California hatchery Chinook salmon. Abstract Salmonid species demonstrate varied susceptibility to the viral pathogen infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV). In California conservation hatcheries, juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) have experienced disease outbreaks due to L genogroup IHNV since the 1940s, while indigenous steelhead (anadromous O. mykiss) appear relatively resistant. To characterize factors contributing to the losses of California salmonid fish due to IHNV, three populations of Chinook salmon and two populations of steelhead native to California watersheds were compared in controlled waterborne challenges with California L genogroup IHNV isolates at viral doses of 104–106 pfu mL−1. Chinook salmon fry were moderately to highly susceptible (CPM = 47–87%) when exposed to subgroup LI and LII IHNV. Susceptibility to mortality decreased with increasing age and also with a higher temperature. Mortality for steelhead fry exposed to two IHNV isolates was low (CPM = 1.3–33%). There was little intraspecies variation in susceptibility among populations of Chinook salmon and no differences in virulence between viruses strains. Viral persistence was demonstrated by the isolation of low levels of infectious IHNV from the skin of two juvenile Chinook salmon at 215 d post exposure. The persistence of the virus among Chinook salmon used for stocking into Lake Oroville may be an explanation for the severe epidemics of IHN at the Feather River hatchery in 1998–2002.
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- Christin M. Bendorf
- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA; (C.M.B.); (S.C.Y.); (R.P.H.)
- Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento, CA 95819, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA; (C.M.B.); (S.C.Y.); (R.P.H.)
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, 6505 NE 65th St., Seattle, WA 98115, USA
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA; (C.M.B.); (S.C.Y.); (R.P.H.)
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