Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2004)

Phocine Distemper in German Seals, 2002

  • Gundi Müller,
  • Peter Wohlsein,
  • Andreas Beineke,
  • Ludwig Haas,
  • Irene Greiser-Wilke,
  • Ursula Siebert,
  • Sonja Fonfara,
  • Timm Harder,
  • Michael Stede,
  • Achim.D. Gruber,
  • Wolfgang Baumgärtner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1004.030591
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
pp. 723 – 725

Abstract

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Approximately 21,700 seals died during a morbillivirus epidemic in northwestern Europe in 2002. Phocine distemper virus 1 was isolated from seals in German waters. The sequence of the P gene showed 97% identity with the Dutch virus isolated in 1988. There was 100% identity with the Dutch isolate from 2002 and a single nucleotide mismatch with the Danish isolate.

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