NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES TO PHOCINE DISTEMPER VIRUS IN ATLANTIC WALRUSES (ODOBENUS-ROSMARUS ROSMARUS) FROM ARCTIC CANADA

Authors
DUIGNAN PJ SALIKI JT STAUBIN DJ HOUSE JA GERACI JR
Citation
Pj. Duignan et al., NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES TO PHOCINE DISTEMPER VIRUS IN ATLANTIC WALRUSES (ODOBENUS-ROSMARUS ROSMARUS) FROM ARCTIC CANADA, Journal of wildlife diseases, 30(1), 1994, pp. 90-94
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Veterinary Sciences
Journal title
Journal of wildlife diseases → ACNP
ISSN journal
00903558
Volume
30
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
90 - 94
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-3558(1994)30:1<90:NATPDV>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
The first evidence of phocine distemper virus (PDV) infection in Atlan tic walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) from Nottingham Island, Nort hwest Territories, Canada, is reported. Blood samples were collected f rom three male walruses killed by Inuit hunters in the fall of 1990. D ifferential virus neutralization test for each animal yielded higher t iters against PDV than against-other members of the Morbillivirus genu s including canine distemper, peste des petits ruminants, rinderpest a nd measles viruses. Thus, PDV infection may be enzootic in walruses of the eastern Canadian Arctic.