Morbillivirus and Pilot Whale Deaths, Mediterranean Sea

Morbillivirus and Pilot Whale Deaths, Mediterranean Sea

An outbreak of a lethal morbillivirus infection of long-finned pilot whales occurred in the Mediterranean Sea from the end of October 2006 through April 2007. Sequence analysis of a 426-bp conserved fragment of the morbillivirus phosphoprotein gene indicates that the virus is more closely related to...

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Main Authors: Antonio Fernández, Fernando Esperón, Pedro Herraéz, Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros, Cristina Clavel, Antonio Bernabé, J. Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaino, Philippe Verborgh, Renaud DeStephanis, Francisco Toledano, Alejandro Bayón
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2008-05-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
pilot whales
mortality
morbillivirus
dispatch
Spain
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/5/07-0948_article
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Summary:An outbreak of a lethal morbillivirus infection of long-finned pilot whales occurred in the Mediterranean Sea from the end of October 2006 through April 2007. Sequence analysis of a 426-bp conserved fragment of the morbillivirus phosphoprotein gene indicates that the virus is more closely related to dolphin morbillivirus than to pilot whale morbillivirus.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059

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