1. Seroepidemiological survey of distemper virus infection in the Caspian Sea and in Lake Baikal.
- Author
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Ohashi K, Miyazaki N, Tanabe S, Nakata H, Miura R, Fujita K, Wakasa C, Uema M, Shiotani M, Takahashi E, and Kai C
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- Animals, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay methods, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay veterinary, Morbillivirus Infections epidemiology, Morbillivirus Infections virology, Russia epidemiology, Seroepidemiologic Studies, Siberia epidemiology, Antibodies, Viral blood, Disease Outbreaks veterinary, Distemper Virus, Phocine immunology, Morbillivirus Infections veterinary, Seals, Earless virology
- Abstract
Forty Caspian seals were surveyed seroepidemiologically between 1993 and 1998 around the times of mass mortality that occurred in 1997 in the Caspian Sea and seven Baikal seals were also surveyed in 1998. Virus neutralizing tests and ELISA clearly suggested that distemper virus epidemic was caused in Caspian seals before the spring of 1997 and that CDV infection continued to occur in Lake Baikal in recent years.
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- 2001
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