Phocine Distemper Virus in Northern Sea Otters in the Pacific Ocean, Alaska, USA

Phocine distemper virus (PDV) has caused 2 epidemics in harbor seals in the Atlantic Ocean but had never been identified in any Pacific Ocean species. We found that northern sea otters in Alaska are infected with PDV, which has created a disease threat to several sympatric and decreasing Pacific mar...

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Autores principales: Goldstein, Tracey, Mazet, Jonna A.K., Gill, Verena A., Doroff, Angela M., Burek, Kathy A., Hammond, John A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2727316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19523293
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1506.090056
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Sumario:Phocine distemper virus (PDV) has caused 2 epidemics in harbor seals in the Atlantic Ocean but had never been identified in any Pacific Ocean species. We found that northern sea otters in Alaska are infected with PDV, which has created a disease threat to several sympatric and decreasing Pacific marine mammals.

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