Mass Die-Off of Caspian Seals Caused by Canine Distemper Virus

	*Dispatch* Mass Die-Off of Caspian Seals Caused by Canine Distemper Virus Seamus Kennedy,* Thijs Kuiken,† Paul D. Jepson,‡ Robert Deaville,‡ Morag Forsyth,§ Tom Barrett,§ Marco W.G. van de Bildt,† Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus,† Tariel Eybatov,¶ Callan Duck,# Aidyn Kydyrmanov,** Igor Mitrofanov,†† Susan Wilson‡‡ Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK; †Seal Rehabilitation and Research Center, Pieterburen, The Netherlands; ‡Institute of Zoology, Regents Park, London, UK; §Institute of Animal Health, Pirbright, Surrey, UK; ¶Geological Institute of the Azerbaijan Republic Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan; #Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews, Fife, UK; *Laboratory of Virus Ecology, Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Almaty, Kazakhstan; ††Akademgorodok, Institute of Zoology, Almaty, Kazakhstan; ‡‡Caspian Environment Programme Ecotoxicology Project, Portaferry, Northern Ireland, UK

	Back to article Figure 2. Tissue lesions from a Caspian seal with distemper. (A) Multiple intracytoplasmic, acidophilic viral inclusions in transitional epithelium of urinary bladder (arrows). Hematoxylin and eosin. (B) Immunohistochemical labeling of morbilliviral antigen in lymphoid cells in a lymph node. Avidin-biotin-peroxidase technique with hematoxylin counterstain.

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