| calicivirus-induced vesicular disease in cetaceans and probable interspecies transmission. | a calicivirus isolated from cetaceans is a new serotype designated cetacean calicivirus tursiops-1 (ccv-tur-1). it appears to have spread from an initially infected atlantic bottlenose dolphin to a california sea lion, and was then carried by the sea lion to a second facility several miles away, where a second dolphin became infected and developed vesicular skin lesions that eroded, leaving shallow ulcers. cetaceans and pinnipeds belong to separate orders, so this finding of interspecies transmi ... | 1983 | 6315658 |