Fatal systemic morbillivirus infection in bottlenose dolphin, Canary Islands, Spain

• Published in: Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Authors: Sierra Pulpillo, Eva María, Succa, Daniele, Arbelo Hernández, Manuel Antonio, García Álvarez, Natalia, Andrada Borzollino, Marisa Ana, Déniz Suárez, María Soraya, Fernández Rodríguez, Antonio Jesús
• Other Authors: Sierra, Eva, Fernandez, Antonio, Arbelo, Manuel, 15742962600, 56006896100, 6603561403, 56005838700, 6602991535, 7003859353, 56673009900, 454532, 3595139, 667707, 4475050, 30481497, 862879, 28148410, 3873352, 176520, WOS:Sierra, E, WOS:Zucca, D, WOS:Arbelo, M, WOS:Garcia-Alvarez, N, WOS:Andrada, M, WOS:Deniz, S, WOS:Fernandez, A, BU-VET
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1080-6040 2014
• Subjects: 240111 Patología animal; 310907 Patología; 310911 Virología; 240118 Mamíferos; Tursiops truncatus; Mediterranean Sea; Resurgence; Coast; Canine Distemper Virus; Morbillivirus; Cetaceans; Bottlenose dolphin; Canary Islands; Cetacean morbilliviruses; Spain; Viruses; Morbillivirus infections; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/46805; https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2002.131463

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. 271 269