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Dolphin morbillivirus infection in a captive harbor seal (Phoca vitulina)
Sandro Mazzariol1, Simone Peletto, Alessandra Mondin
1Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, AGRIPOLIS, Legnaro, Italy.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|December 11, 2012
Abstract:
During the second morbillivirus epidemic (2007 to 2011) in cetaceans along the Italian coastline, dolphin morbillivirus (DMV) was detected by molecular analyses in a captive harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), with pathological findings consistent with morbillivirus infection. This report confirms interspecies DMV transmission from cetaceans to pinnipeds.
