Dolphin morbilliviral infection from the Mediterranean Sea did not spread into the Adriatic Sea

Acta Veterinaria Hungarica

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 127-134

  Gomercic H ^a   Huber, D ^a   Gomerčić, Vera ^b   Škrtić, Darinka ^a   Gomerčić, Ana ^c   Vuković, Snježana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b PLIVA Research Institute Ltd   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Adriatic Sea; Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus); Croatia; Epizootic; Morbillivirus; Survey

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CROATIA; DOLPHIN; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MEASLES VIRUS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CROATIA; DNA PRIMERS; DOLPHINS; FEMALE; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORBILLIVIRUS; MORBILLIVIRUS INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031609951     PISSN: 02366290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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