Journal article

Publication year: 1998

Pages: 33-38

Journal: Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volume number: 34

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 0090-3558

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-34.1.33

Publisher: Wildlife Disease Association

Abstract: 
Thirty-five free-ranging healthy spiny-tailed iguanas (31 Ctenosaura bakeri, 4 C. similis) and 14 green iguanas (Iguana iguana rhinolopha) were caught and held in captivity for 2 days. Blood was collected from all animals and their sera were evaluated for antibody titres against reptilian reoviruses, reptilian paramyxoviruses, and avian paramyxovirus-1 (PMV-1). Cloacal and pharyngeal swabs also were collected and examined for viral content by incubation on chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF) and terrapene heart cells (TH-1). No virus was isolated from the pharyngeal and cloacal swabs on CEF and TH-1. Twenty-three (47%) of 49 sera samples tested positive for reptilian reoviruses by virus neutralization tests. Twenty (41%) of 49 samples had antibodies against one reptilian PMV isolate by virus neutralization tests and 3 (9%) of 34 by hemagglutination inhibition tests. No antibodies were detected against the other PMV isolate of reptilian origin nor against avian PMV-1. This is the first description of serum antibodies against reptilian reoviruses and PMV in wild iguanas.

Harvard Citation style: Gravendyck, M., Ammermann, P., Marschang, R. and Kaleta, E. (1998) Paramyxoviral and reoviral infections of iguanas on Honduran islands, Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 34(1), pp. 33-38. https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-34.1.33

APA Citation style: Gravendyck, M., Ammermann, P., Marschang, R., & Kaleta, E. (1998). Paramyxoviral and reoviral infections of iguanas on Honduran islands. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 34(1), 33-38. https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-34.1.33