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Reptilian-associated viruses have received relatively little attention, partly because of the lack of recognized medical and economic importance. Virological studies with mammalian and avian host systems, rather than those with Poikilothermic vertebrates, have dominated animal virology. Infectious processes in homothermic vertebrates are more similar to those in man than are those in reptiles, and thus they provide more analogous information. Moreover, in many instances, lower homothermic animals are involved as primary and secondary hosts or reservoirs in the infectious chain of vertebrate viruses (Lunger and Clark, 1978).
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Cropp, C.B. (1984). Reptilian Rhabdoviruses. In: Hoff, G.L., Frye, F.L., Jacobson, E.R. (eds) Diseases of Amphibians and Reptiles. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9391-1_11
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