Publications

the descriptive epizootiology of phocine distemper in the uk during 1988/89.	the 'time, place, individual' approach, widely used in characterising human epidemics, was applied to the 1988 phocine distemper virus (pdv) epizootic affecting north sea seals. estimates of time of death from 157 (69%) of the 228 dead seals necropsied in 1988 indicated that the number of carcasses which were found more than 14 days post mortem increased as the epizootic progressed. although information provided by epizootic curves based on when and where carcasses were reported are affected by ...	1992	1594933
serologic study of phocine distemper in a population of harbor seals in scotland.	a serologic survey of the prevalence of morbillivirus antibodies was conducted in a population of harbor seals (phoca vitulina) from northeastern scotland, where mortality was comparatively low during the 1988 phocine distemper virus outbreak. none of the 12 seals sampled before the epizootic were seropositive. thirty-five (52%) of 68 seals sampled after the beginning of the epizootic were seropositive, although there were significant age-related differences in both the number of seropositive in ...	1992	1548798