Phocine distemper virus in northern sea otters in the Pacific Ocean, Alaska, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 925-927

  Goldstein, Tracey ^a,f   Mazet, Jonna A K ^a   Gill, Verena A ^b   Doroff, Angela M ^b   Burek, Kathy A ^c   Hammond, John A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^c Alaska Veterinary Pathology Services   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SEAL; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISTEMPER; DISTEMPER VIRUS, PHOCINE; DNA, VIRAL; OTTERS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 67449085942     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1506.090056     Document Type: Article

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