Abstract Cutaneous lesions were observed in a wild population of freshwater turtles during routine disease surveillance at Alligator Creek, Townsville, Australia. Previous attempts to identify the causative agent these unsuccessful; however, existing evidence suggests viral etiology. To further investigate events, blood samples and lesion, oral cloacal swabs collected from 128 two locations (Al...

The Afrotheria represent an early branching of placental mammals. Only two herpesviruses from Afrotheria have been previously identified, and the genus Proboscivirus in the subfamily Betaherpesvirinae has been proposed for them. Six novel gammaherpesviruses were identified in four species in the superorder Afrotheria by detection and analysis of their DNA polymerase genes. Elephantid herpesviru...

Between 1998 and 2001, tissues from four captive white-tailed deer were observed to have histologic lesions of systemic lymphocytic vasculitis. These lesions suggested malignant catarrhal fever, although epizootic hemorrhagic disease and bluetongue were included in the differential diagnosis. Initial diagnostic efforts, including virus isolation and reverse transcription-PCR for epizootic hemor...

BACKGROUND Herpesvirus and poxvirus can infect a wide range of species: herpesvirus genetic material has been detected and amplified in five species of the superfamily Pinnipedia; poxvirus genetic material, in eight species of Pinnipedia. To date, however, genetic material of these viruses has not been detected in walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), another marine mammal of the Pinnipedia clade, even t...

Wallis, Craig (Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.), and Joseph L. Melnick. Thermostabilization and thermosensitization of herpesvirus. J. Bacteriol. 90:1632-1637. 1965.-Herpesvirus, long considered as one of the most thermolabile of viruses, was stabilized by 1 m Na(2)SO(4) or Na(2)HPO(4) so that it withstood heating at 50 C, but the virus was not protected by 1 m MgCl(2), MgS...

Aim: To characterize one of the major glycoprotein genes viz., glycoprotein C (gC; UL44, unique long region 44) of bovine herpesvirus 1(BoHV1) of Indian origin at genetic and phylogenetic level. Materials and Methods: A bovine herpesvirus 1 isolate viz., (BoHV1/IBR 216 II/ 1976/ India) maintained at Division of Virology, IVRI, Mukteswar was used for the current study. The DNA was extracted usin...

Pulmonary involvement is a clinically important form of visceral Kaposi's sarcoma in immunocompromised patients. Recently, herpesvirus-like deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences, defining a new herpesvirus termed "human herpesvirus 8" (HHV8) or "Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus" (KSHV), were detected in Kaposi's sarcoma of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and non-AIDS patients....

Herpesviruses have mainly co-evolved with their hosts for millions of years. Consequently, different related host species may have been infected by various genetically related herpesviruses. Illustrating this concept, several ruminant alphaherpesviruses have been shown to form a cluster of viruses closely related to bovine herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1): namely bovine herpesvirus 5, bubaline herpesviru...

A recommendation of: Jean-marie Ballouard, Xavier Bonnet, Julie Jourdan, Albert Martinez-Silvestre, Stephane Gagno, Brieuc Fertard, Sebastien Caron First detection of herpesvirus and mycoplasma in free-ranging Hermann tortoises (Testudo hermanni), potential pet vectors https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.22.427726