Inoculation of raccoons with a wild-type-based recombinant canine distemper virus results in viremia, lymphopenia, fever, and widespread histological lesions

ABSTRACT Raccoons are naturally susceptible to canine distemper virus (CDV) infection and can be a potential source of spill-over events. CDV is a highly contagious morbillivirus that infects multiple species of carnivores and omnivores, resulting in severe and often fatal disease. Here, we used a r...

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Main Authors: Dagmar Roelofs, Katharina S. Schmitz, Geert van Amerongen, Laurine C. Rijsbergen, Brigitta M. Laksono, Anouskha D. Comvalius, Sham Nambulli, Linda J. Rennick, Peter van Run, W. Paul Duprex, Judith M. A. van den Brand, Rik L. de Swart, Rory D. de Vries
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-08-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00144-23