Investigation article published in Emerging Infectious Diseases

May 1^st, 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.

Morbillivirus and pilot whale deaths, Mediterranean Sea

Morbillivirus and pilot whale deaths, Mediterranean Sea

	Servicio de Inmunología Viral y Medicina Preventiva (SUAT). Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET). Universidad Complutense (UCM).
	Departamento de Sanidad Animal. Facultad de Veterinaria. Universidad Complutense (UCM).
	Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC).
	National Institute for Crop and Food Research.
	Universidad de Murcia (UM).
	Conservation, Information, Research, Cetaceans (CIRCE).
	Recovery Program for Marine Animals (PROMAR).