title: Presence of herpesvirus in striped dolphins stranded during the cetacean morbillivirus epizootic along the Mediterranean Spanish coast in 2007.
abstract: A screening for herpesvirus (HV) was carried out using a tissue bank obtained from the cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV) mortality episode that occurred along the Mediterranean Spanish coast in 2007. A total of 14 cetaceans, including six long-finned pilot whales and eight striped dolphins, were studied using histopathology and molecular analysis to detect HV and CeMV. In five of the eight dolphins (62.5%) infected with CeMV, eight novel HV sequences were also detected. No HV lesions were found in any of the coinfected dolphins, which may indicate that HV did not contribute to the mortality in the CeMV outbreak. This is the first report of HV infection in any cetacean from the Mediterranean Sea.
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology, Valdeolmos, Spain. nina.belliere@inia.es
authors.forename: Edwige N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Bellière
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Esperón
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arbelo
authors.forename: María J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Muñoz
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: José M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Vizcaíno
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D004289:Dolphins / Q000821:virology*; D006564:Herpesviridae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006566:Herpesviridae Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D008522:Mediterranean Sea; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018103:Morbillivirus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D018185:Morbillivirus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D009928:Organ Specificity; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013030:Spain; D014907:Whales / Q000821:virology