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Boid Inclusion Body Disease Is Also a Disease of Wild Boa Constrictors

Published:2022-10-26 Issue:5 Volume:10 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Alfaro-Alarcón Alejandro¹,Hetzel Udo²³,Smura Teemu⁴,Baggio Francesca²,Morales Juan Alberto¹,Kipar Anja²³^ORCID,Hepojoki Jussi²⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Departamento de Patología, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica

2. Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

3. University of Helsinki, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Helsinki, Finland

4. University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine, Medicum, Department of Virology, Helsinki, Finland

Abstract

The literature describes cases of boid inclusion body disease (BIBD) in captive snakes since the 1970s, and in the 2010s, others and ourselves identified reptarenaviruses as the causative agent. BIBD affects captive snakes globally, but the origin and the natural host of reptarenaviruses remain unknown.

Funder

Leading House for the Latin American Region

Academy of Finland

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.01705-22

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