Hemorrhagic fever-causing arenaviruses: lethal pathogens and potent immune suppressors

ME Brisse, H Ly - Frontiers in immunology, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Hemorrhagic fevers (HF) resulting from pathogenic arenaviral infections have traditionally
been neglected as tropical diseases primarily affecting African and South American regions …

Blind trading: a literature review of research addressing the welfare of ball pythons in the exotic pet trade

J Green, E Coulthard, D Megson, J Norrey, L Norrey… - Animals, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The Ball python is a small species that is commonly kept as an exotic pet
across the world. Despite huge numbers of these snakes being kept and traded in the pet …

Characterization of Haartman Institute snake virus-1 (HISV-1) and HISV-like viruses—The representatives of genus Hartmanivirus, family Arenaviridae

J Hepojoki, S Hepojoki, T Smura, L Szirovicza… - PLoS …, 2018‏ - journals.plos.org
The family Arenaviridae comprises three genera, Mammarenavirus, Reptarenavirus and the
most recently added Hartmanivirus. Arenaviruses have a bisegmented genome with …

Identification of reptarenaviruses, hartmaniviruses, and a novel chuvirus in captive native Brazilian boa constrictors with boid inclusion body disease

FF Argenta, J Hepojoki, T Smura, L Szirovicza… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - journals.asm.org
Boid inclusion body disease (BIBD) is a transmissible viral disease of captive snakes that
causes severe losses in snake collections worldwide. It is caused by reptarenavirus …

Boid inclusion body disease is also a disease of wild boa constrictors

A Alfaro-Alarcón, U Hetzel, T Smura… - Microbiology …, 2022‏ - journals.asm.org
Reptarenaviruses cause boid inclusion body disease (BIBD), a potentially fatal disease,
occurring in captive constrictor snakes boas and pythons worldwide. Classical BIBD …

Genome-wide knockout screen identifies human sialomucin CD164 as an essential entry factor for lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus

J Liu, KA Knopp, E Rackaityte, CY Wang, MT Laurie… - MBio, 2022‏ - journals.asm.org
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) is a well-studied mammarenavirus that can be
fatal in congenital infections. However, our understanding of LCMV and its interactions with …

[HTML][HTML] Respiratory disease in ball pythons (Python regius) experimentally infected with ball python nidovirus

LL Hoon-Hanks, ML Layton, RJ Ossiboff, JSL Parker… - Virology, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Circumstantial evidence has linked a new group of nidoviruses with respiratory disease in
pythons, lizards, and cattle. We conducted experimental infections in ball pythons (Python …

Prevalence of inclusion body disease and associated comorbidity in captive collections of boid and pythonid snakes in Belgium

J Simard, RE Marschang, C Leineweber, T Hellebuyck - PloS one, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
Inclusion body disease (IBD) is caused by reptarenaviruses and constitutes one of the most
notorious viral diseases in snakes. Although central nervous system disease and various …

[HTML][HTML] Haemolymphatic tissues of captive boa constrictor (Boa constrictor): morphological features in healthy individuals and with Boid Inclusion Body Disease

E Dervas, E Michalopoulou, J Hepojoki, T Thiele… - Developmental & …, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge on the structure and composition of the haematopoietic tissue (HT) is
essential to understand the basic immune functions of the immune system in any species …

Reptarenavirus S segment RNA levels correlate with the Presence of inclusion bodies and the number of L segments in snakes with Reptarenavirus Infection …

T Thiele, F Baggio, B Prähauser… - Microbiology …, 2023‏ - journals.asm.org
Reptarenaviruses cause boid inclusion body disease (BIBD), a fatal disease particularly
impacting captive boa constrictor collections. The development of cytoplasmic inclusion …