Surviving and fatal Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus-1A infections in juvenile Asian elephants – lessons learned and recommendations on anti-herpesviral therapy

BACKGROUND: Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses (EEHVs) can cause acute haemorrhagic disease in young Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) and clinical EEHV infections account for the majority of their fatalities. The anti-herpesviral drug famciclovir (FCV) has been used routinely to treat viraemic...

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Autores principales: Dastjerdi, Akbar, Seilern-Moy, Katharina, Darpel, Karin, Steinbach, Falko, Molenaar, Fieke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5002104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27567895
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-016-0806-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5002104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27567895
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-016-0806-5

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