Fatal systemic morbillivirus infection in bottlenose dolphin, canary islands, Spain.

ABSTRACT: 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 recently reported in striped dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea.

SUBMITTER: Sierra E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3901504 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature