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Morbillivirus and pilot whale deaths, Mediterranean Sea.

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.

Emerg Infect Dis ; 14(5): 792-4, 2008 May.

Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18439363

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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.

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Disease Outbreaks/veterinary , Morbillivirus Infections/veterinary , Morbillivirus/pathogenicity , Whales/virology , Animals , Female , Immunohistochemistry , Lymph Nodes/pathology , Lymph Nodes/virology , Male , Mediterranean Sea , Morbillivirus/classification , Morbillivirus/genetics , Morbillivirus Infections/mortality , Morbillivirus Infections/virology , Phosphoproteins/genetics , Phylogeny , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , Sequence Analysis, DNA , Viral Proteins/genetics

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