Epizootic guinea pig herpes-like virus infection in a breeding colony.
A breeding colony of strain-2 guinea pigs which had been relatively free of indigenous caviid herpesviruses experienced an explosive outbreak of guinea pig herpes-like virus apparently as a consequence of intermixing groups and contamination of the water supply. A new breeding colony has been established and has been maintained apparently free of recognized caviid herpesviruses.
Connelly
B L
BL
Division of Infectious Disease, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229.
Keller
G L
GL
Myers
M G
MG
D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D001947:Breeding; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary*; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D006566:Herpesviridae Infections / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014871:Water Microbiology