IBD Journal sources

Here are some journal articles for those interested. Many require access to that journal, a database, or require a fee. Those found on the web have a link included.

Articles on Veterinarian research and articles on IBD

Future Directions in Reptile Medical Education
Jacobson et al. J Vet Med Educ.2006; 33: 373-381

Infectious and parasitic disease of captive reptiles and amphibians, with special emphasis on husbandry practices which prevent or promote diseases.
Ippen R, Zwart P. Rev Sci Tech. 1996 Mar;15(1):43-54.

Divers, SJ. (1999). Clinical evaluation of reptiles. The veterinary clinics of North America. Exotic animal practice, 2(2), 291-331.

Driggers, T. (2000). Respiratory diseases, diagnostics, and therapy in snakes. The veterinary clinics of North America. Exotic animal practice, 3(2), 519-30

Jacobson ER. Exotic pet medicine I. Snakes.
Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract. 1993 Nov;23(6):1179-212. Review.

: Vet Clin North Am Exot Anim Pract. 2004 May;7(2):421-46, vii-viii.
Snake care and husbandry.
Mitchell MA.

Inclusion Body Disease:

Vancraeynest, D, Pasmans, F, Martel, A, et al. (2006). Inclusion body disease in snakes: a review and description of three cases in boa constrictors in Belgium. The Veterinary record, 158(22), 757-60.

Partial characterization of retroviruses from boid snakes with inclusion body disease
Elliott R. Jacobson, Jorge Orós, Sylvia J. Tucker, David P. Pollock, Karen L. Kelley, Robert J. Munn, Brad A. Lock, Ayalew Mergia, Janet K. Yamamoto
American Journal of Veterinary Research, February 2001, Vol. 62, No. 2, Pages 217-224

J Vet Diagn Invest 13:82–86 (2001)
A disease resembling inclusion body disease of boid snakes in captive palm vipers
(Bothriechis marchi)
James T. Raymond, Michael M. Garner, Robert W. Nordhausen, Elliot R. Jacobson
(Free online: http://jvdi.org/cgi/reprint/13/1/82.pdf )

Vet Pathol 37:449–459 (2000)
Isolation and Characterization of an Antigenically Distinct 68-
kd Protein from Nonviral Intracytoplasmic Inclusions in Boa
Constrictors Chronically Infected with the Inclusion Body
Disease Virus (IBDV: Retroviridae)
E. WOZNIAK, J. MCBRIDE, D. DENARDO, R. TARARA, V. WONG, AND B. OSBURN
(free online: http://www.vetpathology.org/cgi/repr...urcetype=HWCIT )

Aust Vet J. 1998 Feb;76(2):98-100.
Inclusion body disease in two captive Australian pythons (Morelia spilota variegata and Morelia spilota spilota).
Carlisle-Nowak MS, Sullivan N, Carrigan M, Knight C, Ryan C, Jacobson ER.


Vet Rec. 1998 Sep 5;143(10):283-5.
Inclusion body disease in two captive boas in the Canary islands.
Orós J, Tucker S, Jacobson ER.

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology
Identification and Characterization of Two Closely Related Unclassifiable Endogenous Retroviruses in Pythons (Python molurus and Python curtus)
Jon B. Huder,1 Jürg Böni,1 Jean-Michel Hatt,2 Guido Soldati,3 Hans Lutz,4 and Jörg Schüpbach1*
J Virol. 2002 August; 76(15): 7607–7615.
(free on internet: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pic...4&blobtype=pdf )

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