1. Herpesviral infection in a Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) from the northern coast of Brazil
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Antonio Fernández, Gisele C C Seade, Salvatore Siciliano, Márcio Alan Oliveira Moura, Valíria Duarte Cerqueira, Jaese F Chaves, Gabriela Riet-Correa, Daniele P. Montão, Renata Emin-Lima, Pedro Soares Bezerra Junior, Alexandra Fernandes Costa, Carlos Augusto Fernandes de Oliveira, and Eva Sierra
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0301 basic medicine ,Subfamily ,040301 veterinary sciences ,Dolphins ,viruses ,Sotalia guianensis ,Zoology ,Biology ,Vulva ,0403 veterinary science ,03 medical and health sciences ,parasitic diseases ,medicine ,Animals ,Gammaherpesvirinae ,Epithelial hyperplasia ,General Veterinary ,Ecology ,Intranuclear Inclusions ,Herpesviridae Infections ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,biology.organism_classification ,Genital lesions ,030104 developmental biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Female ,Genital Diseases, Female ,Brazil - Abstract
We describe herein herpesvirus-associated genital lesions in a Guiana dolphin ( Sotalia guianensis) from the northern Brazilian coast. Papillary lesions on the vulva, with epithelial hyperplasia, swollen keratinocytes, and intranuclear inclusions, were positive for a herpesvirus ( Gammaherpesvirinae subfamily).
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- 2017
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