Comprehensive Serology Based on a Peptide ELISA to Assess the Prevalence of Closely Related Equine Herpesviruses in Zoo and Wild Animals.

Equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) causes respiratory disorders and abortion in equids while EHV-1 regularly causes equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHM), a stroke-like syndrome following endothelial cell infection in horses. Both EHV-1 and EHV-9 infections of non-definitive hosts often result...

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Main Authors: Azza Abdelgawad, Robert Hermes, Armando Damiani, Benjamin Lamglait, Gábor Á Czirják, Marion East, Ortwin Aschenborn, Christian Wenker, Samy Kasem, Nikolaus Osterrieder, Alex D Greenwood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4574707?pdf=render