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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Published in:Emerging infectious diseases 2008-05, Vol.14 (5), p.792-794
Main Authors: Fernández, Antonio, Esperón, Fernando, Herraéz, Pedro, de Los Monteros, Antonio Espinosa, Clavel, Cristina, Bernabé, Antonio, Sánchez-Vizcaino, J Manuel, Verborgh, Philippe, DeStephanis, Renaud, Toledano, Francisco, Bayón, Alejandro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Cetacea
Delphinidae
Disease Outbreaks - veterinary
Dispatch
Dolphins
Female
Globicephala
Health aspects
Immunohistochemistry
Lymph Nodes - pathology
Lymph Nodes - virology
Male
Mediterranean Sea
Morbillivirus
Morbillivirus - classification
Morbillivirus - genetics
Morbillivirus - pathogenicity
Morbillivirus Infections - mortality
Morbillivirus Infections - veterinary
Morbillivirus Infections - virology
mortality
Phosphoproteins - genetics
Phylogeny
pilot whales
Porpoises
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Spain
Viral Proteins - genetics
Whales - virology
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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
DOI:10.3201/eid1405.070948