Further evidence of chelonid herpesvirus 5 (ChHV5) latency: High levels of ChHV5 DNA detected in clinically healthy marine turtles

The Chelonid herpesvirus 5 (ChHV5) has been consistently associated with fibropapillomatosis (FP), a transmissible neoplastic disease of marine turtles. Whether ChHV5 plays a causal role remains debated, partly because while FP tumours have been clearly documented to contain high concentrations of C...

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Main Authors: Alfaro-Nunez, A., Bojesen, A., Bertelsen, M., Wales, N., Balazs, G., Gilbert, Thomas
Format: Journal Article
Published: PeerJ, Ltd. 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7796