Emergence of a bufonid herpesvirus in a population of the common toad Bufo bufo in Germany | Zendy

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Emergence of a bufonid herpesvirus in a population of the common toad Bufo bufo in Germany

Author(s) -

Tobias Eisenberg,

HP Hamann,

Carina M. Reuscher,

Axel Kwet,

K Klier-Heil,

Benjamin Lamp

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

diseases of aquatic organisms

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.545

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 1616-1580

pISSN - 0177-5103

DOI - 10.3354/dao03589

Subject(s) - toad , biology , bufo , ranavirus , population , zoology , herpesviridae , amphibian , virology , viral disease , ecology , virus , demography , sociology

Bufonid herpesvirus 1 (BfHV1) was initially described in 2014 from cases of mortalities and dermatitis in Swiss populations of the common toad Bufo bufo. We identified a closely related herpesvirus strain in a German common toad population affected by an ongoing epidemic of multifocal proliferative to ulcerative skin disease since 2018.

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