First Report of a Ranavirus Associated with Morbidity and Mortality in Farmed Chinese Giant Salamanders (Andrias davidianus)

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 95-102

  Geng, Y ^a   Wang, K Y ^a   Zhou, Z Y ^a   Li, C W ^a   Wang, J ^a   He, M ^a   Yin, Z Q ^a   Lai, W M ^a  

^a SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Andrias davidianus; Chinese giant salamander; Iridovirus; Pathology; Ranavirus

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER LWOFFII; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AEROMONAS VERONII; AMPHIBIAN DISEASE; ANDRIAS DAVIDIANUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLEEDING; BRAIN; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHINA; CHINESE GIANT SALAMANDER VIRUS; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECCHYMOSIS; EDEMA; ENTEROBACTER; GONAD; GRANULOPOIESIS; HEART; HEMATOCHEZIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; INTESTINE DISTENSION; IRIDOVIRUS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LETHARGY; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LIVER NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANAVIRUS INFECTION; SALAMANDER; SPLEEN; STOMACH; SWELLING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANAVIRUS; URODELA;

ANDRIAS DAVIDIANUS; IRIDOVIRUS; MIRIDAE; RANAVIRUS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 79956012321     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: 15323129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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