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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),
Alejandro Alfaro-Alarcón, Udo Hetzel, Teemu Smura, Francesca Baggio, Juan Alberto Morales, Anja Kipar, Jussi Hepojoki   +6 more
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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.
Katharina Windbichler, Eleni Michalopoulou, Pia Palamides, Theresa Pesch, Christine Jelinek, Olli Vapalahti, Anja Kipar, Udo Hetzel, Jussi Hepojoki   +8 more
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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 ...
Jules Simard, Rachel E Marschang, Christoph Leineweber, Tom Hellebuyck   +3 more
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Multifocal cutaneous neoplastic vascular proliferations in a rainbow boa (Epicrates cenchria) collection with boid inclusion body disease. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Reports 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 ...
Anthony Broering Ferreira, Joandes Henrique Fonteque, Jéssica Aline Withoeft, Renata Assis Casagrande, Ubirajara Maciel da Costa, Frank Imkamp, Pauline Göller, Francesca Baggio, Jussi Hepojoki, Udo Hetzel, Anja Kipar   +10 more
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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 ...
Tanja Thiele, Francesca Baggio, Barbara Prähauser, Andres Ruiz Subira, Eleni Michalopoulou, Anja Kipar, Udo Hetzel, Jussi Hepojoki   +7 more
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Replication of boid inclusion body disease-associated arenaviruses is temperature sensitive in both boid and mammalian cells. [PDF]

J Virol, 2015
ABSTRACT Boid inclusion body disease (BIDB) is a fatal disease of boid snakes, the etiology of which has only recently been revealed following the identification of several novel arenaviruses in diseased snakes. BIBD-associated arenaviruses (BIBDAV) are genetically divergent from the classical Old and New World arenaviruses and ...
Hepojoki J, Kipar A, Korzyukov Y, Bell-Sakyi L, Vapalahti O, Hetzel U.   +5 more
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Identification of Reptarenaviruses, Hartmaniviruses, and a Novel Chuvirus in Captive Native Brazilian Boa Constrictors with Boid Inclusion Body Disease. [PDF]

J Virol, 2020
Boid inclusion body disease (BIBD), caused by reptarenavirus infection, affects captive snake populations worldwide, but the reservoir hosts of reptarenaviruses remain unknown. Here, we report the identification of novel reptarenaviruses, hartmaniviruses, and a chuvirus in captive Brazilian boas with BIBD.
Argenta FF, Hepojoki J, Smura T, Szirovicza L, Hammerschmitt ME, Driemeier D, Kipar A, Hetzel U.   +7 more
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Arenavirus Coinfections Are Common in Snakes with Boid Inclusion Body Disease. [PDF]

J Virol, 2015
ABSTRACT Recently, novel arenaviruses were found in snakes with boid inclusion body disease (BIBD); these form the new genus Reptarenavirus within the family Arenaviridae . We used next-generation sequencing and de novo sequence assembly to investigate ...
Hepojoki J, Salmenperä P, Sironen T, Hetzel U, Korzyukov Y, Kipar A, Vapalahti O.   +6 more
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Isolation, identification, and characterization of novel arenaviruses, the etiological agents of boid inclusion body disease. [PDF]

J Virol, 2013
ABSTRACT Boid inclusion body disease (BIBD) is a progressive, usually fatal disease of constrictor snakes, characterized by cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (IB) in a wide range of cell types. To identify the causative agent of the disease, we established cell cultures from BIBD-positive and -negative boa constrictors.
Hetzel U, Sironen T, Laurinmäki P, Liljeroos L, Patjas A, Henttonen H, Vaheri A, Artelt A, Kipar A, Butcher SJ, Vapalahti O, Hepojoki J.   +11 more
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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.
Francesca Baggio, Udo Hetzel, Barbara Prähauser, Eva Dervas, Eleni Michalopoulou, Tanja Thiele, Anja Kipar, Jussi Hepojoki   +7 more
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