Article
Genetic and ultrastructural characterization of a European isolate of the fatal endotheliotropic elephant herpesvirus
1 Mar 2001
Abstract excerpt
A male Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) died at the Berlin zoological gardens in August 1998 of systemic infection with the novel endotheliotropic elephant herpesvirus (ElHV-1). This virus causes a fatal haemorrhagic disease in Asian elephants, the so-called endothelial inclusion body disease, as reported from North American zoological gardens. In the present work, ElHV-1 was visualized ultrastructurally in...
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