A novel group of negative-sense RNA viruses associated with epizootics in managed and free-ranging freshwater turtles in Florida, USA.

Few aquatic animal negative-sense RNA viruses have been characterized, and their role in disease is poorly understood. Here, we describe a virus isolated from diseased freshwater turtles from a Florida farm in 2007 and from an ongoing epizootic among free-ranging populations of Florida softshell tur...

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Main Authors: Thomas B Waltzek, Brian A Stacy, Robert J Ossiboff, Nicole I Stacy, William A Fraser, Annie Yan, Shipra Mohan, Eugene V Koonin, Yuri I Wolf, Thais C S Rodrigues, Pedro H O Viadanna, Kuttichantran Subramaniam, Vsevolod L Popov, Veronica Guzman-Vargas, Lisa A Shender
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-03-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010258

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