Paula Mendonça

TL;DR: This study evidences that exposure of sympatric wild carnivores to parvovirus is common and geographically widespread, potentially carrying a risk to susceptible populations at the wildlife-domestic interface and to threatened species.

TL;DR: Despite the substantial progress achieved with the implementation of a comprehensive test and cull scheme, notification, postmortem inspection and surveillance at slaughterhouses, herd and animal prevalence have unexpectedly increased in 2009.

TL;DR: It is confirmed the presence of herpesvirus in 13 MYXV-positive hares by PCR and sequencing analysis and proposed to name this new virus Leporid gammaherpesvirus 5 (LeHV-5), according to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses standards.

TL;DR: Both animals exhibited good body condition, suggesting a short course of the disease and higher virulence of the virus towards the Iberian hare.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the neuropathology and the neuroinflammation of animal prion diseases in natural hosts from scrapie, going through the zoonotic bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the chronic wasting disease (CWD) to the newly identified camel prion disease(CPD).