A paramyxovirus causing fatal gastroenterocolitis in marmoset monkeys.
A paramyxovirus has been isolated, identified and characterized. The virus causes a disease characterized clinically by severe diarrhea, dehydration and death. Microscopically the disease is characterized as a proliferative gastroenterocolitis with focal necrosis of the mucosa, by giant syncytial cells and eosinophilic intranuclear and intracytoplasmic inclusions. The virus is closely related to measles virus antigenically.
D000818:Animals; D002143:Callitrichinae; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002478:Cells, Cultured / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003588:Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D000882:Haplorhini; D007181:Inclusion Bodies, Viral; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D010252:Paramyxoviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010253:Respirovirus Infections / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014776:Virus Cultivation