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

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

ABSTRACT Reptarenaviruses cause boid inclusion body disease (BIBD), a potentially fatal disease, occurring in captive constrictor snakes boas and pythons worldwide. Classical BIBD, characterized by the formation of pathognomonic cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (IBs), occurs mainly in boas, whereas in p...

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Main Authors: Alejandro Alfaro-Alarcón, Udo Hetzel, Teemu Smura, Francesca Baggio, Juan Alberto Morales, Anja Kipar, Jussi Hepojoki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-10-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
arenavirus
boa constrictor
boid inclusion body disease
inclusion body disease
veterinary microbiology
viral pathogenesis
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01705-22

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01705-22

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