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SUBMITTER: Taubenberger JK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2627976 | biostudies-other | 2000 Jan-Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Taubenberger J K JK Tsai M M MM Atkin T J TJ Fanning T G TG Krafft A E AE Moeller R B RB Kodsi S E SE Mense M G MG Lipscomb T P TP
Emerging infectious diseases 20000101 1
A long-finned pilot whale with morbilliviral disease was stranded in New Jersey. An immunohistochemical stain demonstrated morbilliviral antigen. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction for morbillivirus P and N genes was positive. Novel sequences most closely related to, but distinct from, those of dolphin and porpoise morbilliviruses suggest that this virus may represent a third member of the cetacean morbillivirus group. ...[more]