Publication Date:
1982-02-26
Description:
More than 400 harbor seals, most of them immature, died along the New England coast between December 1979 and October 1980 of acute pneumonia associated with influenza virus, A/Seal/Mass/1/180 (H7N7). The virus has avian characteristics, replicates principally in mammals, and causes mild respiratory disease in experimentally infected seals. Concurrent infection with a previously undescribed mycoplasma or adverse environmental conditions may have triggered the epizootic. The similarities between this epizootic and other seal mortalities in the past suggest that these events may be linked by common biological and environmental factors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Geraci, J R -- St Aubin, D J -- Barker, I K -- Webster, R G -- Hinshaw, V S -- Bean, W J -- Ruhnke, H L -- Prescott, J H -- Early, G -- Baker, A S -- Madoff, S -- Schooley, R T -- AI02649/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI16841/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Feb 26;215(4536):1129-31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7063847" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Disease Outbreaks/*veterinary
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Influenza A virus/isolation & purification
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Orthomyxoviridae Infections/*veterinary
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Pinnipedia/*microbiology
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Pneumonia/*veterinary
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Seals, Earless/*microbiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
