Volume 6, Number 1—February 2000

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Molecular Genetic Evidence of a Novel Morbillivirus in a Long-Finned Pilot Whale (Globicephalus melas)

Jeffery K. Taubenberger* , Mark M. Tsai*, T. Joy Atkin*, Thomas G. Fanning*, Amy E. Krafft*, R.B. Moeller*, S.E. Kodsi†, M.G. Mense†, and Thomas P. Lipscomb*

Author affiliations: *Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C., USA; †Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C., USA

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Figure 1. Lung of pilot whale. Positive intracytoplasmic and intranuclear immunoperoxidase staining of morbilliviral antigen in syncytial cell (center) and bronchiolar epithelium (lower left). Avidin-biotin-peroxidase with Harris' hematoxylin counterstain. Original magnification 594x.

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