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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Published in:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Authors: Sierra, Eva, Zucca, Daniele, Arbelo, Manuel, García-Álvarez, Natalia, Andrada, Marisa, Déniz, Soraya, Fernández, Antonio
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014
Subjects:
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North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3901504
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24447792
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2002.131463
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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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