Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL) pathologist Josué Díaz-Delgago, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVP is part of a team that recently published an article over a novel gammaherpevirus in a free-ranging giant armadillo in Brazil. The novel virus, Cingulatid gammaherpesvirus 1 (CiHV-1), was detected in 3 of the 21 armadillos tested. This instance is the first time this virus was detected in Xenarthra.
Read the abstract below and access the full article in the Transboundary and Emerging Diseases journal.
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