title: Cetacean morbillivirus in coastal Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, Western Australia.
abstract: Cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV) has caused several epizootics in multiple species of cetaceans globally and is an emerging disease among cetaceans in Australia. We detected CeMV in 2 stranded coastal Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Western Australia. Preliminary phylogenetic data suggest that this virus variant is divergent from known strains.
authors.forename: Nahiid
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stephens
authors.forename: Pádraig J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Duignan
authors.forename: Jianning
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bingham
authors.forename: Hugh
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Finn
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bejder
authors.forename: Anthony P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Patterson
authors.forename: Carly
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Holyoake
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D050681:Bottle-Nosed Dolphin / Q000821:virology*; D002591:Cetacea / Q000821:virology*; D018103:Morbillivirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018185:Morbillivirus Infections / Q000821:virology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D014904:Western Australia
keywords: Australia; IHC; Indian Ocean; Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin; PCR; Paramyxoviridae; Tursiops aduncus; Tursiops truncatus; Western Australia; cetacean; common bottlenose dolphin; dolphin; epizootic; gene amplification; immunohistochemical testing; morbillivirus; pathology; phylogeny; viruses