Antarctic Seals Carry Antibodies Against Seal Herpesvirus

Overview

Journal Arch Virol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1992 Jan 1

PMID 1562238

Citations 4

Authors

O Stenvers

J PLOTZ

H Ludwig

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Abstract

Weddell seals in the Antarctica had high neutralizing antibody titres to seal- and feline herpesvirus and none against phocine distemper virus. Crab-eater seals were free of antibodies. This suggests an evolutionary wide spread of seal herpesvirus.

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