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Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 42(1), 2006, pp. 142-148
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A Novel Gammaherpesvirus Associated with Genital Lesions in a Blainville’s Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon densirostris)

Jeremiah T. Saliki1,5,6, Emily J. Cooper1, David S. Rotstein2, Shannon L. Caseltine1, D. Ann Pabst3, William A. McLellan3, Pamela Govett3, Craig Harms3, Kara A. Smolarek4 and Carlos H. Romero4

1 Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA;
2 Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA;
3 Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina 28403, USA;
4 Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA
6 Corresponding author (email: jsaliki{at}uga.edu)

ABSTRACT:   An adult male Blainville’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) was found stranded on the Atlantic coast of the USA on 28 January 2004. Necropsy revealed a focal papilloma-like penile lesion, the cells from which revealed single 4–6 µm basophilic intranuclear inclusions. Total DNA extracted from lesion material was tested using a pan-herpes-virus PCR assay that targets the DNA polymerase gene and found to be positive. When the amplified DNA fragment was cloned, sequenced, and compared to GenBank-deposited herpesvirus DNA polymerase sequences, the detected virus was determined to be a distinct member of the Gammaherpesvirinae subfamily of herpesviruses. This new virus, tentatively named Ziphiid herpesvirus type 1, was associated with but not determined to be the cause of genital disease in the Blainville’s beaked whale.
  Key words:  Beaked whale, gammaherpes-virus, genital papilloma, Mesoplodon densirostris, PCR.

5 Current address: Athens Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia: Athens, Georgia 30602, USA






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