Boid Inclusion Body Disease Is Also a Disease of Wild Boa Constrictors [PDF]
Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 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),
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Antibody response in snakes with boid inclusion body disease. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Boid Inclusion Body Disease (BIBD) is a potentially fatal disease reported in captive boid snakes worldwide that is caused by reptarenavirus infection.
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Prevalence of inclusion body disease and associated comorbidity in captive collections of boid and pythonid snakes in Belgium. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Inclusion body disease (IBD) is caused by reptarenaviruses and constitutes one of the most notorious viral diseases in snakes. Although central nervous system disease and various other clinical signs have been attributed to IBD in boid and pythonid ...
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Multifocal cutaneous neoplastic vascular proliferations in a rainbow boa (Epicrates cenchria) collection with boid inclusion body disease. [PDF]
PLoS ONEReports on neoplastic processes in snakes are sparse regardless of their location, origin or behavior. Here, we describe the occurrence of multifocal cutaneous neoplastic processes consistent with hemangioma and hemangioendothelioma, with a differential ...
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Reptarenavirus S Segment RNA Levels Correlate with the Presence of Inclusion Bodies and the Number of L Segments in Snakes with Reptarenavirus Infection—Lessons Learned from a Large Breeding Colony [PDF]
Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 Reptarenaviruses cause boid inclusion body disease (BIBD), a fatal disease particularly impacting captive boa constrictor collections. The development of cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (IBs) comprising reptarenavirus nucleoprotein (NP) in many cell types ...
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A Multiplex RT-PCR Method for the Detection of Reptarenavirus Infection [PDF]
Viruses, 2023 Reptarenaviruses cause Boid Inclusion Body Disease (BIBD), a fatal disease of boid snakes with an economic and ecological impact, as it affects both captive and wild constrictor snakes.
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Persistent Reptarenavirus and Hartmanivirus Infection in Cultured Boid Cells [PDF]
Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 Mammarenaviruses establish a persistent infection in their rodent and bat hosts, and the evidence suggests that reptarenaviruses and hartmaniviruses found in captive snakes act similarly.
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Differences in Tissue and Species Tropism of Reptarenavirus Species Studied by Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Pseudotypes [PDF]
Viruses, 2020 Reptarenaviruses cause Boid Inclusion Body Disease (BIBD), and co-infections by several reptarenaviruses are common in affected snakes. Reptarenaviruses have only been found in captive snakes, and their reservoir hosts remain unknown. In affected animals,
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Co-infecting Reptarenaviruses Can Be Vertically Transmitted in Boa Constrictor. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2017 Boid inclusion body disease (BIBD) is an often fatal disease affecting mainly constrictor snakes. BIBD has been associated with infection, and more recently with coinfection, by various reptarenavirus species (family Arenaviridae). Thus far BIBD has only
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Haemolymphatic tissues of captive boa constrictor (Boa constrictor): morphological features in healthy individuals and with Boid Inclusion Body Disease [PDF]
Developmental & Comparative ImmunologyKnowledge on the structure and composition of the haematopoietic tissue (HT) is essential to understand the basic immune functions of the immune system in any species.
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