distemper virus

The animal probably contracted the distemper virus from a domestic dog.

There is no antiviral drug effective against the canine distemper virus.

They had to be infected with feline distemper virus.

Some scientists think that the infection has spread from dogs carrying canine distemper virus.

In 1988 there was a seal epidemic when thousands of common seals died from phocine distemper virus.

The co-infection mixed with high levels of babesia showed to be far more fatal than the distemper virus itself.

The disease has also mutated to form phocid distemper virus, which affects seals.

Since the late 1990s, there have been several cases of many Caspian seals dying due to canine distemper virus.

The results showed that virtually all the diseased animals had developed antibodies to the canine distemper virus.

This happened in 1994 when the canine distemper virus, which normally infects only dogs, suddenly jumped to lions.

International concern for these extremely rare mammals arose after thousands of grey seals were wiped out by the canine distemper virus.

Hela cells have also been used to study canine distemper virus' ability to induce apoptosis in cancer cell lines.

The black footed ferret is now extinct in the wild due to canine distemper virus, probably introduced by domestic dogs.

Hexane extracts of Plumbago zeylanica have shown activity against canine distemper virus.

A common cause of death is canine distemper, which develops following vaccination with a modified live distemper virus vaccine.

Canine distemper virus tends to orient its infection towards the lymphoid, epithelial, and nervous tissues.

Canine distemper virus is closely related to measles virus and is the most important viral disease of dogs.

The distemper virus is very short-lived in hot, dry weather, but may persist on hands or surfaces for much longer in cool, damp weather.

Local populations have been reduced or eliminated through disease (especially the phocine distemper virus) and conflict with humans, both unintentionally and intentionally.

In 1988, due to an outbreak of the phocine distemper virus, there was a dramatic decline in the population of the Common Seal.

The so-called phocine distemper virus leaves the seals coughing and wheezing and brings on a type of pneumonia that often kills them.

Many appear to be infected by the phocine distemper virus, which was blamed for the epidemic which afflicted dolphins in the North Sea in 1988.

Packer studied how severe droughts led to co-infections of canine distemper virus by a tick-borne parasite, babesia.

The disease, which is distinct from feline distemper virus that affects small domestic cats, almost wiped out the endangered black-footed ferret in Wyoming a decade ago.

Laboratory tests confirmed the presence of the distemper virus, the Environmental Protection Ministry announced, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.