| epizootiology of morbillivirus infection in north american harbor seals (phoca vitulina) and gray seals (halichoerus grypus). | a longitudinal study of morbillivirus infection among harbor (phoca vitulina) and gray (halichoerus grypus) seals on the atlantic coast of north america was carried out between 1980 and 1994. serology also was carried out on harbor seals from the pacific northwest coast collected in 1992 and 1993. the prevalence of morbillivirus neutralizing antibodies was significantly (p < 0.0001) higher in gray (73%, n = 296) than in harbor seals (37%, n = 387) from the atlantic. titers were significantly (p ... | 1995 | 8592380 |
| phocine distemper virus in seals, east coast, united states, 2006. | in 2006 and 2007, elevated numbers of deaths among seals, constituting an unusual mortality event, occurred off the coasts of maine and massachusetts, united states. we isolated a virus from seal tissue and confirmed it as phocine distemper virus (pdv). we compared the viral hemagglutinin, phosphoprotein, and fusion (f) and matrix (m) protein gene sequences with those of viruses from the 1988 and 2002 pdv epizootics. the virus showed highest similarity with a pdv 1988 netherlands virus, which ra ... | 2011 | 21291591 |