Morbillivirus and pilot whale deaths, Mediterranean Sea
May 1st, 2008
Investigation article published in Emerging Infectious Diseases
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.
