Surviving and fatal Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus-1A infections in juvenile Asian elephants – lessons learned and recommendations on anti-herpesviral therapy

Table 1 Haematological parameters of Case 1 and Case 2 measured during clinical EEHV-1A infection

The haematological parameters for Case 1 (A) were only available for Days 7, 23 and 213 following suspicion of clinical EEHV-1A infection. The haematological parameters and viral load for Case 2 (B) were measured on several occasions from 33 days prior to the observation of signs indicative of clinical EEHV-1A infection (Day 0) to the Day 1 when the elephant succumbed to the infection at midnight. Normal platelet range of live juveniles in the collection was established, during a period of seven months from 20 blood samples of the elephants, to be at 372-878*10e9/L (mean of 625*10e9/L). The rest of the physiological parameters were from 24 measurements from four individuals under eight years of age (age range at time of sampling: 1.5-7y). Parameter values with a substantial change are highlighted in bold. Percentages of monocytes in the white blood cells are also given in the table
vgc/ml, viral genome copies per millilitre of EDTA whole blood; WBC, white blood cell count; RBC, red blood cell count; HGB, haemoglobin; HCT, haematocrit; MCV, mean cell volume; MCH, mean corpuscular haemoglobin; MCHV, mean corpuscular haemoglobin volume; RDW, red blood cell distribution width; PLT, platelet count; PCV, packed cell volume; ND, not detected

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