Fatal Systemic Morbillivirus Infection in Bottlenose Dolphin, Canary Islands, Spain

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 r...

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Main Authors: Eva Sierra, Daniele Zucca, Manuel Arbelo, Natalia García-Álvarez, Marisa Andrada, Soraya Déniz, Antonio Fernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014-02-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/2/13-1463_article