Identification of morbilliviruses of probable cetacean origin in carcases of Mediterranean monk seals (Monachus monachus)

Veterinary Record

Volumn 146, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 691-694

  Van De Bildt, M W G ^a   Martina, B E E ^a   Vedder, E J ^a   Androukaki, E ^b   Kotomatas, S ^b   Komnenou, A ^b   Sidi, B A ^c   Jiddou, A B ^c   Barham, M E O ^c   Niesters, H G M ^d   Osterhaus, A D M E ^d  

^a Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre   (Netherlands)

^b MOm/Hellenic Soc Stud Protect M   (Greece)

^c Ctr Natl Rech Oceanographiques P   (Mauritania)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETACEA; MAMMALIA; MONACHUS MONACHUS; MORBILLIVIRUS; PHOCIDAE; PHOCOENIDAE;

PRIMER DNA; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; CADAVER; CERCOPITHECUS; CETACEA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FERRET; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; GREECE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MAURITANIA; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOCA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERO CELL; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CADAVER; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CETACEA; CROSS REACTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; FERRETS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GREECE; LUNG; MAURITANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORBILLIVIRUS; MORBILLIVIRUS INFECTIONS; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEALS, EARLESS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERO CELLS;

EID: 0034631077     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.146.24.691     Document Type: Article

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