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Antarctic seals carry antibodies against seal herpesvirus
O Stenvers1, J Plötz, H Ludwig
1Institut of Virology, Free University of Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany.
Archives of Virology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
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.