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Genetically distant American Canine distemper virus lineages have recently caused epizootics with somewhat different characteristics in raccoons living around a large suburban zoo in the USA

BACKGROUND: Mortality rates have differed during distemper outbreaks among free-ranging raccoons (Procyon lotor) living around a large Chicago-area zoo, and appeared higher in year 2001 than in 1998 and 2000. We hypothesized that a more lethal variant of the local Canine distemper virus (CDV) lineag...

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Autores principales: Lednicky, John A, Dubach, Jean, Kinsel, Michael J, Meehan, Thomas P, Bocchetta, Maurizio, Hungerford, Laura L, Sarich, Nicolene A, Witecki, Kelley E, Braid, Michael D, Pedrak, Casandra, Houde, Christiane M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC524033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15507154
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-1-2