Cetacean strandings in Italy: An unusual mortality event along the Tyrrhenian Sea coast in 2013

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 81-86

  Casalone, Cristina ^a   Mazzariol, Sandro ^b   Pautasso, Alessandra ^a   Guardo, Giovanni Di ^c   Nocera, Fabio Di ^d   Lucifora, Giuseppe ^d   Ligios, Ciriaco ^e   Franco, Alessia ^f   Fichi, Gianluca ^f   Cocumelli, Cristiano ^f   Cersini, Antonella ^f   Guercio, Annalisa ^g   Puleio, Roberto ^g   Goria, Maria ^a   Podestà, Michela ^h   Marsili, Letizia ⁱ   Pavan, Gianni ^j   Pintore, Antonio ^e   De Carlo, Esterina ^d   Eleni, Claudia ^f   Caracappa, Santo ^g   more..

^a Istituto Zooprofilattico del Piemonte Liguria e Valle D'Aosta   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^d IZS Mezzogiorno   (Italy)

^e IZS Sardegna   (Italy)

^f IZS Lazio e Toscana   (Italy)

^g Izs Sicilia A Mirri   (Italy)

^h Museum of Natural History of Milan   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Cetacean; Dolphin; Marine mammal; Morbillivirus; Stranding; Unusual mortality event

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BODY CONDITION; CAUSE OF DEATH; DOLPHIN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; STRANDING; VIRAL DISEASE;

ITALY; TYRRHENIAN COAST;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CETACEA; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MEASLES VIRUS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORBILLIVIRUS INFECTION; MORTALITY; TIME; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CETACEA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORBILLIVIRUS; MORBILLIVIRUS INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899101012     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02726     Document Type: Article

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