Cetacean Morbillivirus in coastal Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, Western Australia
Stephens, N., Duignan, P., Wang, J., Bingham, J., Finn, H., Bejder, L., Patterson, A. and Holyoake, C. (2014) Cetacean Morbillivirus in coastal Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, Western Australia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 20 (4). pp. 666-670.
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Abstract
Cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV) has caused several epizootics in multiple species of cetaceans globally and is an emerging disease among cetaceans in Australia. We detected CeMV in 2 stranded coastal Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Western Australia. Preliminary phylogenetic data suggest that this virus variant is divergent from known strains.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Murdoch Affiliation(s): | Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research School of Veterinary and Life Sciences |
Publisher: | National Center for Infectious Diseases |
URI: | http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/21718 |
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