Table 1.
Results of inclusion body disease (IBD) and reptarenavirus infection testing in captive boid and pythonid snakes based on the detection of inclusion bodies in hematoxylin and eosin stained blood smears and the detection of reptarenavirus via RT-PCR in blood samples.
Table 2.
Number of sampled collections according to the collection size and the average percentage of snakes sampled per collection size category.
Table 3.
Relationship between inclusion body disease and reptarenavirus infection and sex in boas (Boidae) and pythons (Pythonidae).
Table 4.
Relationship between inclusion body disease and reptarenavirus infection and age in boas (Boidae) and pythons (Pythonidae).
Fig 1.
Inclusion body disease in a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
Eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion body in a lymphocyte (arrow) in a hematoxylin and eosin stained blood smear from a reptarenavirus infected boa constrictor (Boa constrictor). Occasionally, small eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusions were observed in heterophils (arrowhead) (1000x).
Table 5.
The agreement between hematoxylin and eosin stained whole blood and peripheral white blood cells smears (PWBC) for the detection of inclusion bodies in boa constrictors (Boa constrictor).
Table 6.
The agreement between inclusion body detection in hematoxylin and eosin stained blood and peripheral white blood cells smears and the detection of reptarenavirus RNA by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in blood samples in boa constrictors (Boa constrictor).
Table 7.
Association between the presence of inclusion bodies disease and/or reptarenavirus infection with clinical signs in boas (Boidae) and pythons (Pythonidae).