Fatal Systemic Morbillivirus Infection in Bottlenose Dolphin, Canary Islands, Spain

A systemic morbillivirus infection was diagnosed postmortem in a juvenile bottlenose dolphin stranded in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean in 2005. Sequence analysis of a conserved fragment of the morbillivirus phosphoprotein gene indicated that the virus is closely related to dolphin morbillivirus r...

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Other Authors: Sierra, Eva, Zucca, Daniele, Arbelo, Manuel, García-�lvarez, Natalia, Andrada, Marisa, Déniz, Soraya, Fernández, Antonio
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Dispatch
morbillivirus
bottlenose dolphin
Canary Islands
Spain
viruses
cetacean morbilliviruses
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/21736/
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Summary:A systemic morbillivirus infection was diagnosed postmortem in a juvenile bottlenose dolphin stranded in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean in 2005. Sequence analysis of a conserved fragment of the morbillivirus phosphoprotein gene indicated that the virus is closely related to dolphin morbillivirus recently reported in striped dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea.

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