Antarctic seals carry antibodies against seal herpesvirus.
Weddell seals in the Antarctica had high neutralizing antibody titres to seal- and feline herpesvirus and none against phocine distemper virus. Crab-eater seals were free of antibodies. This suggests an evolutionary wide spread of seal herpesvirus.
Stenvers
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Institut of Virology, Free University of Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany.
Plötz
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Ludwig
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D000818:Animals; D000864:Antarctic Regions; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood*; D004217:Distemper Virus, Canine / Q000276:immunology; D006564:Herpesviridae / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009500:Neutralization Tests; D046048:Seals, Earless / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*
D000914:Antibodies, Viral