Canine distemper virus - a morbillivirus in search of new hosts?
March 1997
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volume 5, issue 3 pp 120-124.
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Canine distemper morbillivirus (CDV) induces a multisystemic, often fatal disease in a wide and seemingly expanding host range among the Carnivora. Several genotypes of an otherwise monotypic virus species co-circulate in a geographically restricted pattern. Interspecies transmissions frequently occur, often leading to devastating epizootics in highly susceptible or immunologically naive populations.
Keywords
- Animals
- Human
- Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- Epidemiology, Molecular
- Dogs
- Antigenic Variation
- Distemper Virus, Canine/classification/genetics/immunology/*pathogenicity
- Distemper/epidemiology/transmission/virology
