Primary Infection May Be an Underlying Factor Contributing to Lethal Hemorrhagic Disease Caused by Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus 3 in African Elephants ( Loxodonta africana )-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Primary Infection May Be an Underlying Factor Contributing to Lethal Hemorrhagic Disease Caused by Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus 3 in African Elephants ( Loxodonta africana )

Published:2021-10-31 Issue:2 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Pursell Taylor¹,Spencer Clinton Jennifer L.¹,Tan Jie¹,Peng Rongsheng¹,Qin Xiang²,Doddapaneni Harshavardhan²,Menon Vipin²,Momin Zeineen²,Kottapalli Kavya²,Howard Lauren³,Latimer Erin⁴,Heaggans Sarah⁵,Hayward Gary S.⁵,Ling Paul D.¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

2. Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

3. San Diego Zoo Safari Park, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Escondido, California, USA

4. Wildlife Health Sciences, Smithsonian’s National Zoo, Washington, DC, USA

5. Viral Oncology Program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Abstract

Prior to 2019, only five cases of clinical disease from EEHV infection among African elephants had been documented. Since 2019, there have been at least seven EEHV-HD cases in North American zoos, resulting in three fatalities, all associated with EEHV3.

Funder

International Elephant Foundation

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/Spectrum.00983-21

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