Authors: Xavier FernándezAguilar Fernando Esperón Oscar Cabezón Roser Velarde Gregorio Mentaberre Verónica Delicado María Jesús Muñoz Emmanuel Serrano Santiago Lavín Jorge Ramón LópezOlvera
Publish Date: 2016/08/17
Volume: 161, Issue: 11, Pages: 3249-3253
Abstract
High prevalence 46 of a gammaherpesvirus was confirmed by molecular detection in the lungs of hunted Pyrenean chamois The partial glycoprotein B sequence up to the DNA polymerase gene showed 966 nucleotide sequence identity to the Rupicapra rupicapra gammaherpesvirus 1 and 815 to ovine herpesvirus 2 This novel sequence clusters within sequences derived from the malignant catarrhal fever group of viruses and the corresponding virus is tentatively named Rupicapra pyrenaica gammaherpesvirus 1 RpHV1 No specific histological lesions were associated with RpHV1 nor were any detrimental effects on host health The epidemiological phylogenetic and histopathological results suggest that Pyrenean chamois is the natural host of RpHV1This study was funded by the Spanish MICINN grant number CGL200911631 X FernándezAguilar received a predoctoral grant FIDGR 2013 from the Generalitat de Catalunya and E Serrano was supported by the postdoctoral program SFRH/BPD/96637/2013 of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Portugal
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