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Mass mortality in harbour seals and harbour porpoises caused by an unknown pathogen
Author(s) -
Harkonen T.,
Bäcklin B. M.,
Barrett T.,
Bergman A.,
Corteyn M.,
Dietz R.,
Harding K. C.,
Malmsten J.,
Roos A.,
Teilmann J.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.162.17.555
Subject(s) - harbour , natural history , marine research , library science , geography , archaeology , ecology , biology , oceanography , computer science , programming language , geology
EPIDEMICS caused by phocine distemper virus (pdv) resulted in mass mortalities of European harbour seals ( Phoca vitulina ) in 1988 and 2002 ([Harkonen and others 2006][1]). A third epidemic started in June 2007; the gross pathological changes observed in seals that died in the 2007 outbreak were