High-Level Variability in the ORF-K1 Membrane Protein Gene at the Left End of the Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Genome Defines Four Major Virus Subtypes and Multiple Variants or Clades in Different Human Populations

Jian-Chao Zong, D M Ciufo, Donald J. Alcendor, +14

Journal of Virology

Comparison of Genetic Variability at Multiple Loci across the Genomes of the Major Subtypes of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Reveals Evidence for Recombination and for Two Distinct Types of Open Reading Frame K15 Alleles at the Right-Hand End

Lynn Poole, Jian-Chao Zong, D M Ciufo, +6

Journal of Virology

Patterns of Gene Expression and a Transactivation Function Exhibited by the vGCR (ORF74) Chemokine Receptor Protein of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus

Chuang-Jiun Chiou, Lynn Poole, Peter Kim, +7

Journal of Virology

PathologySarcoma-associated HerpesvirusViral Structural ProteinCancer BiologyTumor Biology +16

Detection and evaluation of novel herpesviruses in routine and pathological samples from Asian and African elephants: Identification of two new probosciviruses (EEHV5 and EEHV6) and two new gammaherpesviruses (EGHV3B and EGHV5)

Erin Latimer, Jian-Chao Zong, Sarah Y. Heaggans, +2

Veterinary Microbiology

VaccinationDiagnostic VirologyViral DiagnosticsMedicineViral Pathogenesis +9

Detection of pathogenic elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus in routine trunk washes from healthy adult Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) by use of a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay

Jeffrey J. Stanton, Jian-Chao Zong, Erin Latimer, +3

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses EEHV1A, EEHV1B, and EEHV2 from Cases of Hemorrhagic Disease Are Highly Diverged from Other Mammalian Herpesviruses and May Form a New Subfamily

Laura K. Richman, Jian-Chao Zong, Erin Latimer, +3

Journal of Virology

FATAL HERPESVIRUS HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE IN WILD AND ORPHAN ASIAN ELEPHANTS IN SOUTHERN INDIA

Arun Zachariah, Jian-Chao Zong, Simon Y. Long, +4

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Diagnostic VirologyVirus EpidemiologyZoonotic DiseasePathogenesisEmergent Virus +11

ELEPHANT ENDOTHELIOTROPIC HERPESVIRUS 5, A NEWLY RECOGNIZED ELEPHANT HERPESVIRUS ASSOCIATED WITH CLINICAL AND SUBCLINICAL INFECTIONS IN CAPTIVE ASIAN ELEPHANTS (<i>ELEPHAS MAXIMUS</i>)

Lisa M. Atkins, Jian-Chao Zong, Jie Tan, +11

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Diagnostic VirologyVasculitisCaptive Asian ElephantsZoonotic DiseasePathogenesis +11

Ugandan Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Phylogeny: Evidence for Cross-Ethnic Transmission of Viral Subtypes

Henry Kajumbula, Robert G. Wallace, Jian-Chao Zong, +7

Intervirology

Comparative Genome Analysis of Four Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses, EEHV3, EEHV4, EEHV5, and EEHV6, from Cases of Hemorrhagic Disease or Viremia

Jian-Chao Zong, Erin Latimer, Simon Y. Long, +3

Journal of Virology