Identification and partial sequencing of a crocodile poxvirus associated with deeply penetrating skin lesions in farmed Nile crocodiles, Crocodylus niloticus
Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research
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| Title | Identification and partial sequencing of a crocodile poxvirus associated with deeply penetrating skin lesions in farmed Nile crocodiles, Crocodylus niloticus | |
| Creator | Huchzermeyer, F.W. Wallace, D.B. Putterill, J.F. Gerdes, G.H. | |
| Description | When large numbers of crocodile skins were downgraded because of the presence of small pin pricklike holes, collapsed epidermal cysts were found deep in the dermis of juvenile crocodiles while forming cysts were observed in hatchlings. Histopathology of these forming cysts showed the presence of intracytoplasmic inclusions in proliferating and ballooning epidermal cells. Pox virions were seen in electron microscope preparations made from the scabs of such early lesions. The partial sequencing of virus material from scrapings of these lesions and comparison of it with the published sequence of crocodile poxvirus showed the virus associated with the deep lesions to be closely related, but different. To differentiate between the two forms of crocodile pox infection it is suggested that the previously known form should be called ''classical crocodile pox'' and the newly discovered form ''atypical crocodile pox''. The application of strict hygiene measures brought about a decline in the percentage of downgraded skins. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2009-09-09 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/ojvr.v76i3.35 | |
| Source | Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research; Vol 76, No 3 (2009); 311-316 2219-0635 0030-2465 | |
| Language | eng | |
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