Canine distemper outbreak in raccoons suggests pathogen interspecies transmission amongst alien and native carnivores in urban areas from Germany

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 174, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 50-59

  Rentería Solís, Zaida ^a   Förster, Christine ^b   Aue, Angelika ^c   Wittstatt, Ulrich ^c   Wibbelt, Gudrun ^a   König, Matthias ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c State Laboratory Berlin Brandenburg (LLBB)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canine distemper virus; Germany; Invasive species; Procyon lotor; Raccoon; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANINE DISTEMPER; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMANY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RACCOON; URBAN AREA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISTEMPER; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISTEMPER; DISTEMPER VIRUS, CANINE; DOGS; GERMANY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RACCOONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84908869175     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2014.08.034     Document Type: Article

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