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.

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
Murdoch Affiliation:	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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