Aquaculture diagnostics provider PatoGen, which services Scottish salmon farming from Oban, has been bought by Norway’s biggest human medical diagnostics company, Fürst Medical Laboratory.

Fish health and diagnostics company PatoGen, in collaboration with a wrasse farmer, has discovered a novel virus in ballan wrasse hatchlings which is associated with high mortality shortly after hatching. The virus has been named ballan wrasse birnavirus (BWDV).