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Further evidence of Chelonid herpesvirus 5 (ChHV5) latency: high levels of ChHV5 DNA detected in clinically healthy marine turtles

The Chelonid herpesvirus 5 (ChHV5) has been consistently associated with fibropapillomatosis (FP), a transmissible neoplastic disease of marine turtles. Whether ChHV5 plays a causal role remains debated, partly because while FP tumours have been clearly documented to contain high concentrations of C...

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Autores principales: Alfaro-Núñez, Alonzo, Bojesen, Anders Miki, Bertelsen, Mads F., Wales, Nathan, Balazs, George H., Gilbert, M. Thomas P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27547576
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2274