| 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 |