Abstract
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.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Animals
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Disease Outbreaks / veterinary*
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Female
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Immunohistochemistry
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Lymph Nodes / pathology
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Lymph Nodes / virology
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Male
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Mediterranean Sea
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Morbillivirus / classification
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Morbillivirus / genetics
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Morbillivirus / pathogenicity*
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Morbillivirus Infections / mortality
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Morbillivirus Infections / veterinary*
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Morbillivirus Infections / virology
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Phosphoproteins / genetics
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Phylogeny
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Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Viral Proteins / genetics
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Whales / virology*
Substances
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Phosphoproteins
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Viral Proteins