Clinico-pathologic features of fatal disease attributed to new variants of endotheliotropic herpesviruses in two Asian elephants (Elephas maximus)

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 97-104

  Garner, M M ^a   Helmick, K ^b   Ochsenreiter, J ^b   Richman, L K ^c   Latimer, E ^c   Wise, A G ^d   Maes, R K ^d   Kiupel, M ^d   Nordhausen, R W ^f   Zong, J C ^e   Hayward, G S ^e  

^a NORTHWEST ZOOPATH   (United States)

^b Woodland Park Zoo   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health   (United States)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Elephants; Endotheliotropic herpesviruses; Herpesvirus; Histopa Thology; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; HERPES; HERPESVIRIDAE;

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BETAHERPESVIRINAE; CASE REPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; ELEPHANT; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BASE SEQUENCE; BETAHERPESVIRINAE; DNA PRIMERS; ELEPHANTS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPLEEN;

EID: 63249114896     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: 15442217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1354/vp.46-1-97     Document Type: Article

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