Article
Isolation of pseudorabies (Aujeszky's disease) virus from a Florida panther.
Journal of wildlife diseases - 1 Apr 1994
Glass C M, McLean R G, Katz J B, Maehr D S, Cropp C B, Kirk L J, McKeirnan A J, Evermann J F
Abstract excerpt
Pseudorabies virus was isolated in cell culture from the brain tissue of a 3.5-year-old male Florida panther (Felis concolor coryi). The virus was not isolated from other tissues collected at necropsy. Based upon a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR), the virus was determined to have the class...
Topics
- Animals
- Brain
- Carnivora
- DNA, Viral
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Genotype
- Herpesvirus 1, Suid
- Male
- Neutralization Tests
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Pseudorabies
- Thymidine Kinase
- Vero Cells
- Viral Envelope Proteins