Sentences with word «phocine»

In 1988, an outbreak of phocine distemper virus resulted in the deaths of many thousands of seals throughout European waters.
Tissue distribution of phocine herpesvirus - 1 (PhHV - 1) in infected harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) from the central Californian coast and a comparison of diagnostic methods.
Diseases like phocine distemper virus, now present in eastern Arctic seals, may now «spill over» to western species because of the loss of ice, according to the review.
Working with tissue samples from 16 seals, a team led by Seamus Kennedy of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Belfast, U.K., found lung tissue and epithelial cells riddled with microscopic lesions characteristic of morbillivirus infection — the viral group that includes CDV and a pathogen recently discovered in seals, phocine distemper virus.
Antibodies to phocine herpesvirus - 1 are common in North American harbor seals (Phoca vitulina).
In December 1991 biologists at the Boston Aquarium found antibodies to phocine distemper virus in 14 of 47 stranded seals but none of the animals showed symptoms of the disease.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, funded by Morris Animal Foundation, first confirmed that phocine distemper virus had crossed from the Atlantic Ocean through the Arctic Ocean into sea otters in Pacific waters.
What many people may not know is that there is a related virus, phocine distemper, that can be deadly to seals and that poses a significant threat to marine mammal species around the world, and potentially to the highly endangered Hawaiian monk seal.
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