Phocine Distemper Virus in Seals, East Coast, United States, 2006

• Main Authors: J. A. Philip Earle, Mary M. Melia, Nadine V. Doherty, Ole Nielsen, S. Louise Cosby
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Kattegat; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.288.5037

seals, constituting an unusual mortality event, occurred off the coasts of Maine and Massachusetts, United States. We isolated a virus from seal tissue and confi rmed it as phocine distemper virus (PDV). We compared the viral hemagglutinin, phosphoprotein, and fusion (F) and matrix (M) protein gene...