Nonfatal clinical presentation of elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus discovered in a group of captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus)

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 626-632

  Schaftenaar, W ^a   Reid, C ^b   Martina, B ^c   Fickel, J ^b   Osterhaus, A D M E ^c  

^a Rotterdam Zoo   (Netherlands)

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

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EEHV; Elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus; herpetic lesions; tropism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HERPES VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; VAGINA DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; VAGINAL DISEASES;

ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; LOXODONTA;

EID: 78650134169     PISSN: 10427260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1638/2009-0217.1     Document Type: Article

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