Molecular genetic evidence of a novel morbillivirus in a long-finned pilot whale (Globicephalus melas)

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 42-45

  Taubenberger, Jeffery K ^a   Tsai, Mark M ^a   Atkin, T Joy ^a   Fanning, Thomas G ^a   Krafft, Amy E ^a   Moeller, R B ^a   Kodsi, S E ^b   Mense, M G ^b   Lipscomb, Thomas P ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MEASLES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; WHALE;

EID: 0034001116     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0601.000107     Document Type: Article

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