Serological evidence of morbillivirus infection in small cetaceans from the Southeast Pacific

Veterinary Microbiology
M F Van BressemT Barrett

Abstract

The presence of morbillivirus-specific serum antibodies was examined by an indirect enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (iELISA) and virus neutralization tests in serum samples from 30 dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus), 8 long-snouted common dolphins (Delphinus capensis), 2 inshore and 6 offshore bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and 20 Burmeister's porpoises (Phocoena spinipinnis) taken in fisheries off central Peru in 1993-1995. The sera from six dusky dolphins, one common dolphin and three offshore bottlenose dolphins were positive on a coat of dolphin morbillivirus (DMV) antigen in the iELISA. Several of these sera were also positive when tested against peste des petits ruminants and rinderpest virus antigen. Porpoise morbillivirus and/or DMV neutralizing antibodies were detected in the sera of two bottlenose and three dusky dolphins that reacted positively with DMV antigen in iELISA and also in the sera of one common, one dusky and one bottlenose dolphin that were negative in the iELISA. These results strongly suggest that viruses closely related, or identical, to the cetacean morbillivirus present in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea infect several species of Delphinidae of the Southeastern Pacific....Continue Reading

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Jun 8, 2001·Veterinary Microbiology·M Van BressemT Barrett
Oct 11, 2015·Journal of Virological Methods·Carlos SacristánFernando Esperón
Apr 29, 2006·Veterinary Microbiology·Wei-Cheng YangLing-Ling Chueh
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Aug 24, 2006·Virus Genes·Ignacio G Bravo, Angel Alonso
Sep 5, 2008·Clinical and Vaccine Immunology : CVI·Hendrik H NollensJames F X Wellehan
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