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Newly discovered polyomavirus virus associated with death of stranded dolphin

Emily

Editor, Senior Moderator
http://www.mailman.columbia.edu/news/new-virus-discovered-stranded-dolphin
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues have identified a new virus associated with the death of a short-beaked dolphin found stranded on a beach in San Diego. It is the first time that a virus belonging to the polyomavirus family has been found in a dolphin. Results appear online in the journal PLOS ONE..
July 9, 2013

Identification of a Novel Cetacean Polyomavirus from a Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) with Tracheobronchitis
Simon J. Anthony, Isamara Navarrete-Macias, Maria Sanchez-Leon, Eliza Liang, Tracie Seimon, Komal Jain, Thomas Briese, W. Ian Lipkin


http://virology-online.com/viruses/polyomaviruses.htm
 
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