Duignan P J, House C, Geraci J R, Duffy N, Rima B K, Walsh M T, Early G, St Aubin D J, Sadove S, Koopman H
Department of Pathology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Canada.
Vet Microbiol. 1995 May;44(2-4):241-9. doi: 10.1016/0378-1135(95)00017-5.
We report serologic evidence of morbillivirus infection in eleven of fifteen species of odontocete cetaceans from the western Atlantic since 1986. Blood samples were obtained both from free-ranging and stranded animals. Virus neutralizing titers were higher against porpoise and dolphin morbilliviruses than against peste des petits ruminants virus, phocine distemper virus or canine distemper virus (CDV). Serum from five species, tested in a heterologous immunoprecipitation assay using radiolabelled CDV, precipitated the nucleocapsid (N) protein. Clinical morbillivirus infection may potentially impact already threatened species such as the harbour porpoise and precipitate mass strandings of socially cohesive odontocetes.
我们报告了自1986年以来在西大西洋15种齿鲸类动物中的11种身上发现麻疹病毒感染的血清学证据。血液样本取自自由放养和搁浅的动物。与小反刍兽疫病毒、海豹瘟热病毒或犬瘟热病毒（CDV）相比，针对鼠海豚和海豚麻疹病毒的病毒中和效价更高。在使用放射性标记的CDV进行的异源免疫沉淀试验中，来自5个物种的血清沉淀出核衣壳（N）蛋白。临床麻疹病毒感染可能会对港湾鼠海豚等已经受到威胁的物种产生潜在影响，并导致具有社会凝聚力的齿鲸类动物大量搁浅。
