Herpes & Parvo Flashcards
The greek word Herpein means?
To creep
Herpesvirales is no longer considered a family but an?
Order
Order: Herpesvirales
accommodates
* __ Families
* ____ Subfamilies
* ____ Genera
* ____ Species
3, 3, 17, 90
Herepesviridae subfamily - alpha, beta, gamma
Within alpha, beta, and gamma several viruses higlighted -> know names
Alpha, beta, gamma = subfamily
Alpha = highlighted viruses
Examples of viruses here; we select which ones we want to study
Does he want us to know this?
Allo = fish
Mala= oysters
Describe the size and characteristics of the herpesvirus virion.
Know the size
Define the term tegument
Describe the herpesvirus envelope.
Describe the herpesvirus capsid.
Describe the herpesvirus core
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Viral capsid
General properties of of Herpesvirus
Structure and Composition
Spherical ______, ___-____ nm
_____-stranded ___, linear
More than ___ proteins
Enveloped or non-enveloped?
Replication from _____ (______)
iscoahedron, 150, 200, Double, DNA, 35, Enveloped, nucleus, budding
What are the important features of Herpesvirus
–> Important features
Encode many _____
Establish ____ infections
Lifelong ______
A significant cause of death in ________ hosts
Some can cause ____
enzymes, latent, persistence, immunocompromised, cancers
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Herpesvirus
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Herpesvirus
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Herpesvirus
Envelope
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Herpesvirus
Tegument
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Herpesvirus
Capsid
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Herpesvirus
DNA
Describe the herpesvirus genome
Genome: monopartite, linear, dsDNA
genome of 120-240 kb
The herpesvirus genome contains?
terminal and internal repeated sequences
The herpesvirus genome contains unique ____ (UL)
and unique ____ (US) regions bounded by ______ ______ (ITR) which allow _________ of unique
regions
long, short, inverted repeats, rearrangement
Most vertebrates carry ________ ______ species
multiple herpesvirus
The herpesvirus encodes a large number of enzymes involved in ____ metabolism and ______ processing
Nucleic Acid, protein
Herpesvirus
DNA synthesis and viral assembly occur in the ?
nucleus (IP)
Herpesvirus
Production of progeny virus resulted in ?
host cell distortion
Production of large number of viruses in cell –> expands cell size
Herpesvirus
Persistent infection with ______ or ______ shedding
periodic, continuous
Herpesvirus can remain _____ in the host cell
-Alpha: ______
-Beta: ______
-Gamma: _______
latent, neurons, monocytes, lymphocytes
____ & ______ herpesvirus infections often clinically silent in mammals
Beta, gamma
Herpesviruses highly _____ to their hosts, and severe infection is usually observed only in the very ____.
adapted, young
Most Herpesviruses establish a ______ infection, a cell-associated _____ being detectable during primary infection.
systemic, viremia
Herpesvirus replication cycle
Simple
Herpesvirus replication cycle
Complex
Nucleus = transcription
mRNA produced
translation
released from host cell
What can be seen here?
Herpesvirus - Formation of capsid; Budding through a nuclear envelope
What can be seen here?
Infected cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies
What can be seen here?
“Owl eye” Herpesvirus intranuclear inclusion
Latent replication of Herpesvirus:
Replication of circular viral episome in
tandem with the host cell DNA using the host cell replication machinery
“_____ ____” Herpesvirus ______ inclusion
owl eye, intranuclear
Why Herpesviruses are difficult to be controlled?
1- Some infect _____ target tissues: ___ and maternal _____. If virus affecting placenta –> _____
2-All become _____ (as circular DNA in the nuclei of ganglia of lymphocytes) of
recovered animals
Subsequent reactivation during _____ causes disease or tumors
3- All are ____-associated and can spread between cells by cell ______.
crucial, brain, placenta, abortion, latent, stress, cell, fusion
What are the outcomes of Herpesvirus infected cells?
Lytic Herpesviruses: ______ of the infected cells due to alteration in the _____ and ______ process in the cell
Non-lytic Herpesviruses: integrated in the host cell _____ resulted in changes in the cells
-distortion or change in the cell _____
-change in the appearance of cell _____
- appearance of viral ____ (___) in the cell membrane
destruction, biochemical, biological, genome, nucleus, membrane, proteingD
Human herpesvirus = ?
Equine herpesvirus = ?
Bovine herpesvirus = ?
Caprine herpesvirus = ?
Avian herpesvirus = ?
Feline herpesvirus = ?
Canine herpesvirus = ?
Swine herpesvirus = ?
Fish herpesvirus = ?
HSV
EHV-1,2,3,4,5,9
Caprine Herpevirus
MDV, ILTV, DVE
FeHV
Canid Herpesvirus-1
Suid HV’s, Pseudorabies, Aujeszky’s
Salmonid Herpesvirus 1,2,3
HSV is involved in a variety of clinical
manifestations which includes?
- Acute gingivostomatitis
- Herpes Labialis (cold sore)
- Ocular Herpes
- Herpes Genitalis
- Other forms of cutaneous herpes
- Meningitis
- Encephalitis
- Neonatal herpes
- Keratoconjunctivitis (corneal ulcers)
What can be seen here?
Herpes Labialis aka cold sore
What can be seen here?
Keratoconjunctivitis (corneal ulcers) caused by Herpesvirus
What can be seen here?
Meningitis due to Herpesvirus infection
What can be seen here?
CPE of HSV in cell culture: Note ballooning
of cells
What can be seen here?
Positive
immunofluorescence test
for HSV antigen in
epithelial cell
What can be seen here?
- Stained smear of materials from
Herpesvirus simple lesion - Multinucleated giant cell and
intramuscular inclusion bodies - Pink areas within the epithelial
cell nuclei are intranuclear IB.
List the various alpha herpesviruses
EHV-1, 3,4,9
EHV-1 leads to?
- Abortion
- Respiratory issues
- Neurological issues
EHV-3 leads to?
Coital exanthema
EHV-9 leads to?
Fatal encephalitis of gazelle, giraffe, and polar bear
EHV-4 leads to?
Respiratory diseases in young foals
List the various beta herpesvirus
EHV 2, 5
EHV-2 leads to?
Suppression of horse’s immunity
EHV-5 leads to?
Pulmonary fibrosis
EHV-1 causes? Equine _______ virus
What are the clinical signs of EHV-1?
Respiratory, abortions, encephalomyelitis
Can cause four manifestations of disease in horses, including ________ form, ______ disease, ____ and neonatal _____
abortion
neurological, respiratory, abortion, death
What are the clinical signs of EHV-2?
Granulomatous dermatitis
What are the clinical signs of EHV-3?
Genital lesions (______ ______ ______ Virus)
Causes a ______ disease called _____ _____ that affects the ____ genitalia but has not been shown to affect ______.
Equine Coital Exanthema, venereal, coital exanthema, external, fertility
What are the clinical signs of EHV-4?
Equine Rhino pneumonitis syndrome
Causes a nonfatal upper respiratory tract disease in foals and is uncommonly associated with abortion and rarely with neurological disease
What are the clinical signs of EHV-5?
Equine multinodular pulmonary fibrosis (EMNPF)
What are the clinical signs of EHV-8?
Rhinitis
What are the clinical signs of EHV-9?
Asymptomatic in equids, severe disease in other species
Epidemiology of EHV
_______ distribution
Transmission: ____ or _____ contact with infectious ____ secretions, ____
fetuses, ______, or ______ fluids
Horses may become ____ carriers of EHV; virus may be reactivated after ____
Horse is the only known _____ for the virus
The usual mode of transmission is _____
–> The pathogenic mechanisms of EHV-1 and EHV-4 differ significantly:
EHV-1 strains have a predilection for _______ ______, especially the nasal
mucosa, lungs, adrenal, thyroid, and CNS
EHV-1 gains access to peripheral tissues via cell-associated viremia, which may
manifest as _____ or _____ disease
EHV-4 infection is restricted to ______ _____ epithelium and associated
lymph nodes
Worldwide, direct, indirect, nasal, aborted, placentas, placental, latent, stress, reservoir, venereal, vascular endothelium, abortion, neurologic, respiratory tract
Clinical signs of EHV
_____ commonly precedes the development of other clinical signs
Respiratory disease: fever, coughing, and nasal discharge
Other equine respiratory diseases, such as influenza, and differential laboratory diagnosis is required
_____ typically occur late in pregnancy (greater than eight months, although earlier cases are reported)
______ disease associated with EHV-1 can range from mild incoordination to severe posterior paralysis
* Severely affected horses may become ____ and unable to rise-Incoordination -Lower leg swelling -Weakness in hind limbs
Inability to pass urine or manure
* Neurological problems (not by direct neuronal infection but indirectly via endothelial infection) –
________ –> _______ –> resulting in: an ______ condition in the spinal cord –> neuronal _______ –> neuronal ______
Fever, Abortions, Neurological, recumbent, Vasculitis, thrombosis, ischemic, anoxia, necrosis
EHV-1
Neurological signs
Pathogenesis of EHV -1
EHV-1 infects the ______ cells of the ?
* EHV-1 ______ and ____
* Dissemination through the ________ ____
* Virus reach _____ _____ (PBMC) will be infected
* Virus circulate and infect _____
* Dissemination of the virus to distant such as the _____ &
________ _____, MALT= _____ associated lymphoid tissue, NALT= _____ associated lymphoid tissues
-> EHV-1 transmission from mare to fetus:
* EHV-1 spreads by cell-to-cell contact to the fetus through ______ endothelium
* EHV-1 can also infect ______ cells causing uterine pathology leading to premature placental ______ and fetus ____ (inadequate _______ of the mother)
epithelial, upper respiratory
tract
replicates, sheds
respiratory tract
lymph nodes
leucocytes
CNS
reproductive tract
mucosal
nasal
capillary, endometrial, separation, anoxi, oxygenation
Describe how EHV-1 can cause abortion
Endothelial cells and leukocytes –> Endometrial vessels –> fight CD4+ and CD8+ –> inflammation, vasculitis –> affects fetus.
EHV-1 and abortion
Umbilical cord has blood vessels, lymph supplies, etc. and connects fetus to mother. Fetus is an obligate parasite of the mother b/c has no way to function on its own.
Viremia leads to endometrial endothelial cell infection –> Endometrial vasculitis and thrombosis (blood clot) –> Extensive infarction: virus negative fetus
What are some complications of EHV-1 infection in pregnant mares?
What are some complications of EHV-1 infection in full term foals?
FULL TERM FOALS
l -General weakness
l -Pneumonia
l -Death
What are some complications of EHV-1 infection in infected fetuses?
Infected fetuses aborted in late pregnancy
are often fresh- death due to suffocation
following rapid placental separation
EHV-4 may rarely cause isolated abortions but not ?
abortion storms
General pathogenesis of EHV1&4
General pathogenesis of EHV1&4
Equine Viral Rhinopheumonitis
1. What species is effected by this disease? Age range?
2. What is this disease caused by?
3. EHV-4 replication is restricted to?
4. EHV-1 infection extends to what parts of the body?
- A disease of young horses (up to 2 years), and older animals – mild clinical signs
- Caused by 4 Herpesviruses (EHV-1 (subtype-1, subtype-2), EHV-2, EHV-3, EHV-4)
- EHV-4 replication is mainly restricted to URT
- EHV-1 infection extends beyond the respiratory tract (Cell associated viremia) lung pneumonia, placenta endometritis, abortion.
Equine Viral Rhinopheumonitis
Equine Viral Rhinopheumonitis
Equine herpesvirus 2-associated granulomatous dermatitis; Multifocal to coalescing areas of necrosis marked by histiocytic cell
Equine herpesvirus 2-associated granulomatous dermatitis
Multifocal to coalescing areas of necrosis marked by histiocytic cell
infiltration and the presence of giant cells.
* Intranuclear and intracytoplasmic viral particles consistent with
Herpesvirus
Equine Herpesvirus-3 (EHV-3)(Equine Coital Exanthema
Equine Herpesvirus-3 (EHV-3)(Equine Coital Exanthema)
1. Acute ______ transmitted disease –> ? (4) penis and prepuce of stallions -
external genitalia and peripheral skin of mares
- lips, external nares, nasal mucosa, and conjunctiva:
lesions heal after 14 days l, leaving depigmented
patches on the vulva -erosions and ulcers on prepuce
and penis of the male cacauseorse genital herpes
infection
- white depigmented spots on vulva, penis, prepuce
develop and stay for life – helps in identifying
previously infected animals or carriers
* EHV3 exhibits no cross-reactivity with other
Herpesviruses
* High antibody incidence >50%
* Experimental inoculation in the uterus – abortion
occurs
* Subclinical respiratory infection in yearling horses
sexually, papules, vesicles,
pustules, and ulcers
What diagnostic tests would you run if you suspect your patient has EHV?
Case history
Clinical signs
Virus isolation from aborted foetus using cell culture
PCR (nasal, rectal, vaginal, placental fluid)
Serology: -Serum Neutralization test (SNT)
-Complement fixation test (CFT)
Haematology: Leukopenia
How can you control the spread of EHV?
Vaccination
-an early age
- periodically depending on management factors
- recommended to reduce the incidence and severity of disease
What types of vaccines are available for EHV-1?
Psuedorabies Virus (PRV)-(Aujeszky’s Disease, Mad Itch)
1. What is the cause of Mad Itch disease?
2. Genus name?
3. How many serotypes does this virus possess?
4. What species are affected?
5. Which species are dead end hosts?
6. Morbidity?
7. Mortality?
Alphaherpesvirus (Porcine herpesvirus-1)
Genus: Varicellovirus
Single serotype
Disease of pigs (natural host) that is fatal for most
other animals
Dead end host (dogs, cats, cattle etc.)
Morbidity
Up to 100% in piglets,
mild or no signs in adults
Up to 20% abortions
Mortality
Highest in younger
animals
Decreases with age
Always fatal in other
species
-Aujeszky first identifies
ADV in cattle and dogs
-Determines swine are
natural hosts
Describe the modes of transmission of Psuedorabies Virus (PRV)
Most common
Respiratory
Oral
Nose-to-nose contact
Aerosol
Fomites
Contaminated bedding and water
Meat products or carcasses
Latent carriers possible
Contact with infected pigs
Ingestion of contaminated raw meat
Rarely lateral transmission
Pig bite—uncommon
What are the clinical signs seen in pigs affected by Mad itch?
** Incubation period: 2 to 6 days
< 1 week old piglets
Fever, listlessness, anorexia
Neurological signs
Tremors, paddling, seizures, dog-sitting
High mortality within 24 to 36 hours
** Older piglets/weaned pigs
Similar signs
Respiratory, neurological, vomiting
Lower mortality
** Adult pigs
− Mild or subclinical infection
− Respiratory and neurological signs
− Pregnant sows: reproductive signs
Describe the pathogenesis of Pseudorabies in pigs.
Pigs
Replicates in tonsils and oral pharyngeal epithelium
Mild respiratory signs - follows trigeminal nerve to the TG- latent infection,
in rare cases CNS invasion.
Can cross placenta
Systemic infection in fetuses and neonates (CNS invasion)
Describe the pathogenesis of Pseudorabies in other animals (_____ _____ hosts).
–> Entry by ____ routes/______
Virus follows ______ nerves to spinal cord –> brain
____ signs, rapid death (sometimes found dead), ______ .
–> Entry by ____ wounds
Follows nerves to spinal cord and CNS
Intense pruritus (____ ____) with self mutilation at site of bite
Death
dead end, oral, ingestion, autonomic, CNS, pruritus, bite, mad itch
What are the clinical signs of pseudo rabies in cattle and sheep
Cattle and sheep
Intense pruritus
Licking, rubbing,
gnawing, self-mutilation
Neurological signs
What are the clinical signs of pseudo rabies in dogs and cats
Dogs and cats
Similar to cattle and sheep
Resembles rabies
Sudden death
Hosts other than pigs diagnosed with pseudo rabies live for how long?
1-2 days
Pseudo rabies
Top image = swayback?
Some Necropsy and histology findings of Psuedorabies Virus (PRV)
Describe what you would find on necropsy in pigs and other hosts diagnosed with pseudorabies.
Pigs
-Neurological
Nonsuppurative meningoencephalitis
-Respiratory
Necrotic tonsillitis, bronchitis,
bronchiolitis, alveolitis
-Focal necrosis
Other species
-Spinal cord lesions
PRV
What vaccines exist against PRV in swine species
- Inactivated vaccines
- Modified live virus vaccine
- Deletion mutant vaccines
- Sub-unit vaccine plus some immune stimulating complex called (ISCOMs)
- Vaccination prevents/minimize diseases but not the infection
How do you control PRV?
IMMEDIATELY notify authorities
Federal
Area Veterinarian in Charge (AVIC)
www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/area_offices/
State
State Animal Health Officials
www.usaha.org/Portals/6/StateAnimalHealthOfficials.pdf
Quarantine Isolation and testing of new animals
Test and slaughter approach: UK eradication
Biosecurity measures
Prevent entry
Double fencing
Disinfection
Phenols, quaternary ammonium compounds
Inactivated by heat, sunlight
What can be seen clinically in a patient diagnosed with BHV-1.1?
Implicated in respiratory diseases; may cause abortion
What can be seen clinically in a patient diagnosed with BHV-1.2a?
Implicated in infectious balanoposthitis/infectious pustular
vulvovaginitis syndrome and may cause abortion