Fatal Infection of a Pet Monkey with Human herpesvirus 1

Concerns have been raised about pet monkeys as a potential threat to humans. We report the opposite situation, a danger to pets that arises from humans. Similar to herpesvirus B (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1), which endangers humans but not its host species, Human herpesvirus 1 can act as a “killer...

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Autores principales: Huemer, Hartwig P., Larcher, Clara, Czedik-Eysenberg, Thomas, Nowotny, Norbert, Reifinger, Martin
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12023925
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0806.010341
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author Huemer, Hartwig P.
Larcher, Clara
Czedik-Eysenberg, Thomas
Nowotny, Norbert
Reifinger, Martin
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Larcher, Clara
Czedik-Eysenberg, Thomas
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description Concerns have been raised about pet monkeys as a potential threat to humans. We report the opposite situation, a danger to pets that arises from humans. Similar to herpesvirus B (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1), which endangers humans but not its host species, Human herpesvirus 1 can act as a “killer virus” when crossing the species barrier to New World monkeys.
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spelling pubmed-27384922009-09-16 Fatal Infection of a Pet Monkey with Human herpesvirus 1 Huemer, Hartwig P. Larcher, Clara Czedik-Eysenberg, Thomas Nowotny, Norbert Reifinger, Martin Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch Concerns have been raised about pet monkeys as a potential threat to humans. We report the opposite situation, a danger to pets that arises from humans. Similar to herpesvirus B (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1), which endangers humans but not its host species, Human herpesvirus 1 can act as a “killer virus” when crossing the species barrier to New World monkeys. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2738492/ /pubmed/12023925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0806.010341 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Huemer, Hartwig P.
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Reifinger, Martin
Fatal Infection of a Pet Monkey with Human herpesvirus 1
title Fatal Infection of a Pet Monkey with Human herpesvirus 1
title_full Fatal Infection of a Pet Monkey with Human herpesvirus 1
title_fullStr Fatal Infection of a Pet Monkey with Human herpesvirus 1
title_full_unstemmed Fatal Infection of a Pet Monkey with Human herpesvirus 1
title_short Fatal Infection of a Pet Monkey with Human herpesvirus 1
title_sort fatal infection of a pet monkey with human herpesvirus 1
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12023925
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0806.010341
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