Pathogenicity of frog virus 3-like virus in red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans) at two environmental temperatures

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 149, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 356-367

  Allender, M C ^a   Mitchell, M A ^a   Torres, T ^a   Sekowska, J ^a   Driskell, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chelonian; Iridovirus; Pathogenesis; Turtle

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FROG VIRUS 3; GENE DOSAGE; HEART; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; KIDNEY; LIVER; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG; MORTALITY; MYOSITIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPLEEN; SPLEEN DISEASE; SURVIVAL TIME; TONGUE; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS; TURTLE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ANIMALIA; FROG VIRUS 3; IRIDOVIRUS; MIRIDAE; RANAVIRUS; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS;

CHELONIAN; IRIDOVIRUS; PATHOGENESIS; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; RANAVIRUS; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84881117098     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: 15323129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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