Clinical and pathological findings of a newly recognized disease of elephants caused by endotheliotropic herpesviruses

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-12

  Richman, Laura K ^a,f   Montali, Richard J ^a   Cambre, Richard C ^a   Schmitt, Dennis ^b   Hardy, Douglas ^c   Hildbrandt, Thomas ^d   Bengis, Roy G ^e   Hamzeh, Fayez M ^f   Shahkolahi, Akbar ^f   Hayward, Gary S ^f  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dickerson Park Zoo   (United States)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e KRUGER NATIONAL PARK   (South Africa)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elephant; Elephas maximus; Endotheliotropic viruses; Famciclovir; Herpesvirus; Loxodonta africana; New disease; Penciclovir

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; HERPES; HERPESVIRIDAE; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MIRIDAE;

2 AMINOPURINE; ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FAMCICLOVIR; PENCICLOVIR; PRODRUG; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEART MUSCLE; HERPES VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TONGUE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VIROLOGY; ZOO ANIMAL;

2-AMINOPURINE; ACYCLOVIR; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DNA, VIRAL; ELEPHANTS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; NORTH AMERICA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRODRUGS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONGUE;

EID: 0033630234     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-36.1.1     Document Type: Article

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