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First molecular detection and characterization of herpesvirus and poxvirus in a Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens)

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Veterinary Research, December 2014
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Title
First molecular detection and characterization of herpesvirus and poxvirus in a Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens)
Published in
BMC Veterinary Research, December 2014
DOI 10.1186/s12917-014-0308-2
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Mar Melero, Daniel García-Párraga, Juan Manuel Corpa, Joaquín Ortega, Consuelo Rubio-Guerri, José Luis Crespo, Belén Rivera-Arroyo, José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno

Abstract

BackgroundHerpesvirus and poxvirus can infect a wide range of species: herpesvirus genetic material has been detected and amplified in five species of the superfamily Pinnipedia; poxvirus genetic material, in eight species of Pinnipedia. To date, however, genetic material of these viruses has not been detected in walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), another marine mammal of the Pinnipedia clade, even though anti-herpesvirus antibodies have been detected in these animals.Case presentationIn February 2013, a 9-year-old healthy captive female Pacific walrus died unexpectedly at L¿Oceanografic (Valencia, Spain). Herpesvirus was detected in pharyngeal tonsil tissue by PCR. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the virus belongs to the subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae. Poxvirus was also detected by PCR in skin, pre-scapular and tracheobronchial lymph nodes and tonsils. Gross lesions were not detected in any tissue, but histopathological analyses of pharyngeal tonsils and lymph nodes revealed remarkable lymphoid depletion and lymphocytolysis. Similar histopatholical lesions have been previously described in bovine calves infected with an alphaherpesvirus, and in northern elephant seals infected with a gammaherpesvirus that is closely related to the herpesvirus found in this case. Intracytoplasmic eosinophilic inclusion bodies, consistent with poxviral infection, were also observed in the epithelium of the tonsilar mucosa.ConclusionTo our knowledge, this is the first molecular identification of herpesvirus and poxvirus in a walrus. Neither virus was likely to have contributed directly to the death of our animal.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 2%
Unknown 41 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 21%
Researcher 5 12%
Student > Master 5 12%
Other 4 10%
Student > Postgraduate 4 10%
Other 10 24%
Unknown 5 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 36%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 13 31%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 5 12%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 June 2022.
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#12,607,737
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#772
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#159,935
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Veterinary Research
#26
of 97 outputs
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