Fatal Systemic Morbillivirus Infection in Bottlenose Dolphin, Canary Islands, Spain
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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.
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دوره 20 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2014