Publications

isolation, identification, and characterization of novel arenaviruses, the etiological agents of boid inclusion body disease.	boid inclusion body disease (bibd) is a progressive, usually fatal disease of constrictor snakes, characterized by cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (ib) in a wide range of cell types. to identify the causative agent of the disease, we established cell cultures from bibd-positive and -negative boa constrictors. the ib phenotype was maintained in cultured cells of affected animals, and supernatants from these cultures caused the phenotype in cultures originating from bibd-negative snakes. viruses were ...	2013	23926354
replication of boid inclusion body disease-associated arenaviruses is temperature sensitive in both boid and mammalian cells.	boid inclusion body disease (bidb) is a fatal disease of boid snakes, the etiology of which has only recently been revealed following the identification of several novel arenaviruses in diseased snakes. bibd-associated arenaviruses (bibdav) are genetically divergent from the classical old and new world arenaviruses and also differ substantially from each other. even though there is convincing evidence that bibdav are indeed the etiological agent of bibd, the bibdav reservoir hosts--if any exist ...	2014	25378485