Morbillivirus and pilot whale deaths, Mediterranean Sea
Investigation article published in Emerging Infectious Diseases
May 1st, 2008
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
Fernandez A., Esperon F., Herraez P., Espinosa A., Clavel C., Bernabe A., Sanchez-Vizcaino JM., Verborgh P., DeSephanis R., Toledano F. and Bayon A.


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National Institute for Crop and Food Research. | |
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Conservation, Information, Research, Cetaceans (CIRCE). | |
Recovery Program for Marine Animals (PROMAR). | |