Morbillivirus and pilot whale deaths, Mediterranean Sea.
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.
Fernández
Antonio
A
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. afernandez@dmor.ulpgc.es
Esperón
Fernando
F
Herraéz
Pedro
P
de Los Monteros
Antonio Espinosa
AE
Clavel
Cristina
C
Bernabé
Antonio
A
Sánchez-Vizcaino
J Manuel
JM
Verborgh
Philippe
P
DeStephanis
Renaud
R
Toledano
Francisco
F
Bayón
Alejandro
A
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*
D010750:Phosphoproteins; D014764:Viral Proteins