Article
First fatal elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus type 5 infection in a captive Asian elephant in Germany
2024-06-27
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background:</bold> Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV) infection is the most common cause for lethal hemorrhagic disease in captive juvenile Asian elephants (<italic>Elephas maximus</italic>). Although EEHV-1 is known as the most likely cause of fatal haemorrhagic disease in Asian elephants, EEHV-5 was lately involved in lethal cases of haemorrhagic disease in captive ele...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c6ab524e-39ba-572c-8cb7-069d8329150d
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4542137/v1
