JWD Subscribe to eTOC alerts
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 32(4), 1996, pp. 682-686
© Wildlife Disease Association  1996
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Westhouse, R.
Right arrow Articles by Homer, B.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Westhouse, R.
Right arrow Articles by Homer, B.

Respiratory and pharyngo-esophageal iridovirus infection in a gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)

RA Westhouse, ER Jacobson, RK Harris, KR Winter, and BL Homer


ABSTRACT

A free-living adult male gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) was found on Sanibel Island, Florida (USA), on 18 February 1992 with signs of upper respiratory disease. On necropsy after euthanasia on 27 February 1992, severe, extensive necrotizing ulcerative tracheitis, multifocal necrotizing pneumonia, and multifocal necrotizing ulcerative pharyngitis and esophagitis were observed. Large ovoid to round intracytoplasmic basophilic inclusions, which appeared to displace the nucleus to the cell periphery, occurred within degenerate and necrotic epithelial cells of the above tissues. On transmission electron microscopy of formalin-fixed trachea and lung, intracytoplasmic viral particles were observed within necrotic cells in the tracheal lumen and epithelial cells of the lung. Most infected cells also had a roughly spherical granular cytoplasmic inclusion that contained clusters of viral particles. Viral particles had an electron dense spherical to icosahedral core surrounded by a less electron dense icosahedral capsid. Mature extracellular virions were surrounded by an envelope and were 150 to 220 nm in diameter. Virions and cytoplasmic inclusions were morphologically similar to those of the Family Iridoviridae.


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J Wildl DisHome page
A. J. Johnson, A. P. Pessier, J. F. X. Wellehan, A. Childress, T. M. Norton, N. L. Stedman, D. C. Bloom, W. Belzer, V. R. Titus, R. Wagner, et al.
RANAVIRUS INFECTION OF FREE-RANGING AND CAPTIVE BOX TURTLES AND TORTOISES IN THE UNITED STATES
J. Wildl. Dis., October 1, 2008; 44(4): 851 - 863.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Vet PatholHome page
A. J. Johnson, A. P. Pessier, and E. R. Jacobson
Experimental Transmission and Induction of Ranaviral Disease in Western Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata) and Red-Eared Sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans)
Vet. Pathol., May 1, 2007; 44(3): 285 - 297.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 J Wildl DisHome page
M. C. Allender, M. M. Fry, A. R. Irizarry, L. Craig, A. J. Johnson, and M. Jones
Intracytoplasmic inclusions in circulating leukocytes from an eastern box turtle (terrapene Carolina Carolina) with iridoviral infection.
J. Wildl. Dis., July 1, 2006; 42(3): 677 - 684.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1996 by the Wildlife Disease Association.