title: Morbillivirus and pilot whale deaths, Mediterranean Sea.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. afernandez@dmor.ulpgc.es
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Esperón
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Herraéz
authors.forename: Antonio Espinosa
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: de Los Monteros
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Clavel
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bernabé
authors.forename: J Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Vizcaino
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Verborgh
authors.forename: Renaud
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: DeStephanis
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Toledano
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bayón
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology; D008297:Male; D008522:Mediterranean Sea; D018103:Morbillivirus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D018185:Morbillivirus Infections / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D014907:Whales / Q000821:virology*
chemical_list: D010750:Phosphoproteins; D014764:Viral Proteins