Latimer, Erin
Research Specialist
research and diagnostics of Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus
Background And Education
Education And Training
Research And Grants
Investigator On
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Fayette, Melissa A., Minich, David J., Sylvester, Hannah, and Latimer, Erin. 2024. "First Detection Of Clinical Disease Due To Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus 7a In Two African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana) In Human Care." Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 55, (1) 290–294. https://doi.org/10.1638/2023-0034. 2024
- Sylvester, Hannah, Raines, Jan, Burgdorf-Moisuk, Anne, Connolly, Maren, Wilson, Sandra, Ripple, Lauren, Rivera, Sam, McCain, Stephanie, and Latimer, Erin. 2024. "Selected instances of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus shedding in trunk secretions by African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in comparison to shedding by Asian elephants (Elephas maximus)." Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 55, (1). https://doi.org/10.1638/2022-0046. 2024
- Kerr, Tanya J., van Heerden, Jana, Goosen, Wynand J., Kleynhans, Leanie, Buss, Peter E., Latimer, Erin, and Miller, Michele A. 2023. "Detection of Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus (EEHV) in Free-Ranging African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana) in the Kruger National Park, South Africa." Journal of wildlife diseases, 59, (1) 128–137. https://doi.org/10.7589/JWD-D-22-00015. 2023
- Anderson, Kailey B., Steeil, James C., Latimer, Erin, Hall, Victoria, Hayek, Lee-Ann C., and Brandão, João. 2022. "Changes in Serum Cardiac Troponin i in Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) with Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus Infection." Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 53, (2) 249–258. https://doi.org/10.1638/2021-0003. 2022
- Fayette, Melissa A., Brenner, Emily E., Garner, Michael M., Bowman, Michelle R., Latimer, Erin, and Proudfoot, Jeffry S. 2021. "Acute Hemorrhagic Disease due to Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus 3a Infection in Five African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana) at One North American Zoological Institution." Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 52, (1) 357–365. https://doi.org/10.1638/2020-0126. 2021
- Pursell, Taylor, Clinton, Jennifer L. Spencer, Tan, Jie, Peng, Rongsheng, Qin, Xiang, Doddapaneni, HarshaVardhan, Menon, Vipin, Momin, Zeineen, Kottapalli, Kavya, Howard, Lauren, Latimer, Erin, Heaggans, Sarah, Hayward, Gary S., and Ling, Paul D. 2021. "Primary Infection May Be an Underlying Factor Contributing to Lethal Hemorrhagic Disease Caused by Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus 3 in African Elephants (Loxodonta africana)." Microbiology Spectrum, 9, (2). https://doi.org/10.1128/Spectrum.00983-21. 2021
- Lee, Mei-Ho, Nathan, Senthilvel K. S. S., Benedict, Laura, Nagalingam, Pakeeyaraj, Latimer, Erin, Hughes, Tom, Ramirez, Diana, and Abd Sukor, Jum Rafiah. 2021. "The first reported cases of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus infectious haemorrhagic disease in Malaysia: case report." Virology Journal, 18, (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-021-01694-x. 2021
- Grenus, Brittany G., Latimer, Erin, Cullinane, Ann, Lyons, Pamela, Creighton, Gerry, and Nutter, Felicia B. 2020. "Evaluation of the Efficacyof Two Different Sampling Sites for the Detection of Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus (Eehv) in Three Asian Elephants (Elephas Maximus) in Ireland." Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 51, (2) 303–307. https://doi.org/10.1638/2018-0193. 2020
- Zachariah, A., Sajesh, P. K., Santhosh, S., Bathrachalam, C., Megha, M., Pandiyan, J., Jishnu, M., Kobragade, R. S., Long, S. Y., Zong, J-C, Latimer, E. M., Heaggans, S. Y., and Hayward, G. S. 2018. "Extended genotypic evaluation and comparison of twenty-two cases of lethal EEHV1 hemorrhagic disease in wild and captive Asian elephants in India." PLOS ONE, 13, (8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202438. 2018
- Bauer, Kendra L., Latimer, Erin, and Finnegan, Mitch. 2018. "Long-term, intermittent, low-level elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus 1A viremia in a captive Asian elephant calf." Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 30, (6) 917–919. https://doi.org/10.1177/1040638718803138. 2018
- Bronson, Ellen, McClure, Michael, Sohl, Jennifer, Wiedner, Ellen, Cox, Sherry, Latimer, Erin M., Pearson, Virginia R., Hayward, Gary S., Fuery, Angela, and Ling, Paul D. 2017. "Epidemiologic Evaluation of Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus 3B Infection in an African Elephant (Loxodonta Africana)." Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 48, (2) 335–343. https://doi.org/10.1638/2016-0063R.1. 2017
- Zong, Jian-Chao, Heaggans, Simon Y., Long, Sarah Y., Latimer, Erin M., Nofs, Sally A., Bronson, Ellen, Casares, Miguel, Fouraker, Michael D., Pearson, Virginia R., Richman, Laura K., and Hayward, Gary S. 2016. "Detection of Quiescent Infections with Multiple Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses EEHV2, EEHV3, EEHV6 and EEHV7 within Lymphoid Lung Nodules or Lung and Spleen Tissue Samples from Five Asymptomatic Adult African Elephants." Journal of virology, 90, (6) 3028–3043. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.02936-15. 2016
- Long, Simon Y., Latimer, Erin M., and Hayward, Gary S. 2016. "Review of Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses and Acute Hemorrhagic Disease." ILAR Journal, 56, (3) 283–296. https://doi.org/10.1093/ilar/ilv041. 2016
- van den Doel, Petra B., Prieto, Ví, Rossum-Fikkert, Sarah, Schaftenaar, Willem, Latimer, Erin, Howard, Lauren, Chapman, Sarah, Masters, Nic, Osterhaus, Albert D. M. E., Ling, Paul D., Dastjerdi, Akbar, and Martina, Byron. 2015. "A novel antigen capture ELISA for the specific detection of IgG antibodies to elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus." BMC Veterinary Research, 11, (1) 203. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-015-0522-6. 2015
- Ortega, Joaquín, Corpa, Juan M., Orden, José A., Blanco, Jorge, Carbonell, María D., Gerique, Amalia C., Latimer, Erin, Hayward, Gary S., Roemmelt, Andreas, Kraemer, Thomas, Romey, Aurore, Kassimi, Labib B., and Casares, Miguel. 2015. "Acute death associated with Citrobacter freundii infection in an African elephant ( Loxodonta africana )." Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 27, (5) 632–636. https://doi.org/10.1177/1040638715596034. 2015
- van, den Doel, Prieto, Ví, van Rossum-Fikkert, Sarah E., Schaftenaar, Willem, Latimer, Erin, Howard, Lauren, Chapman, Sarah, Masters, Nic, Osterhaus, Albert D. M. E., Ling, Paul D., Dastjerdi, Akbar, and Martina, Byron. 2015. "Erratum to: A novel antigen capture ELISA for the specific detection of IgG antibodies to elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus." BMC Public Health, 15 851. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2178-3. 2015
- Zong, Jian-Chao, Latimer, Erin M., Long, Simon Y., Richman, Laura K., Heaggans, Sarah Y., and Hayward, Gary S. 2014. "Comparative Genome Analysis of Four Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses EEHV3, EEHV4, EEHV5 and EEHV6 from Cases of Hemorrhagic Disease or Viremia." Journal of virology, 88, (23) 13547–13569. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01675-14. 2014
- Richman, Laura K., Zong, Jian-Chao, Latimer, Erin M., Lock, Justin, Fleischer, Robert C., Heaggans, Sarah Y., and Hayward, Gary S. 2014. "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." Journal of virology, 88, (23) 13523–13546. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01673-14. 2014
- Atkins, Lisa, Zong, Jian-Chao, Tan, Jie, Mejia, Alicia, Heaggans, Sarah Y., Nofs, Sally A., Stanton, Jeffrey J., Flanagan, Joseph P., Howard, Lauren, Latimer, Erin, Stevens, Martina R., Hoffman, Daryl S., Hayward, Gary S., and Ling, Paul D. 2013. "Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus 5, a newly recognized elephant herpesvirus associated with clinical and subclinical infections in captive Asian elephants (elephas maximus)." Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 44, (1) 136–143. https://doi.org/10.1638/1042-7260-44.1.136. 2013
- Zachariah, Arun, Zong, Jian-Chao, Long, Simon Y., Latimer, Erin M., Heaggans, Sarah Y., Richman, Laura K., and Hayward, Gary S. 2013. "Fatal Herpesvirus Hemorrhagic Disease in Wild and Orphan Asian Elephants in Southern India." Journal of wildlife diseases, 49, (2) 381–393. https://doi.org/10.7589/2012-07-193. 2013
- Stanton, Jeffrey J., Zong, Jian-Chao, Eng, Crystal, Howard, Lauren, Flanagan, Joe, Stevens, Martina, Schmitt, Dennis, Wiedner, Ellen, Graham, Danielle, Junge, Randall E., Weber, Martha A., Fischer, Martha, Mejia, Alicia, Tan, Jie, Latimer, Erin, Herron, Alan, Hayward, Gary S., and Ling, Paul D. 2013. "Kinetics of viral loads and genotypic analysis of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus-1 infection in captive Asian elephants (elephas maximus)." Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 44, (1) 42–54. https://doi.org/10.1638/1042-7260-44.1.42. 2013
- Denk, Daniela, Redrobe, Sharon, Latimer, Erin, Hayward, Gary S., Cracknell, Jonathan, and Claessens, Anais. 2012. "Fatal elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus type 5 infection in a captive Asian elephant." Veterinary Record, 171, (15) 380–381. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.e6833. 2012
- Latimer, Erin, Zong, Jian-Chao, Heaggans, Sarah Y., Richman, Laura K., and Hayward, Gary S. 2010. "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)." Veterinary Microbiology, 147, (1-2) 28–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.05.042. 2010
- Stanton, Jeffrey J., Zong, Jian-Chao, Latimer, Erin, Tan, Jie, Herron, Alan, Hayward, Gary S., and Ling, Paul D. 2010. "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." American Journal of Veterinary Research, 71, (8) 925–933. https://doi.org/10.2460/ajvr.71.8.925. 2010
- Garner, M. M., Helmick, Kelly E., Ochsenreiter, J., Richman, Laura K., Latimer, Erin, Wise, A. G., Maes, R. K., Kiupel, M., Nordhausen, R. W., Zong, J. C., and Hayward, G. S. 2009. "Clinico-pathologic Features of Fatal Disease Attributed to New Variants of Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses in Two Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)." Vet Pathol, 46, (1) 97–104. https://doi.org/10.1354/vp.46-1-97. 2009
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- National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute Academic Department