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Volume 20, Number 2—February 2014
Dispatch

Fatal Systemic Morbillivirus Infection in Bottlenose Dolphin, Canary Islands, Spain

Eva SierraComments to Author , Daniele Zucca, Manuel Arbelo, Natalia García-Álvarez, Marisa Andrada, Soraya Déniz, and Antonio Fernández
Author affiliations: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Arucas, Canary Islands, Spain

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Figure 1

Lung from necropsy of a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) that had fatal systemic morbillivirus infection, Canary Islands, Spain, 2005. Positive intracytoplasmic and intranuclear immunoperoxidase staining of morbilliviral antigen (red) within hyperplastic type II pneumocytes, macrophages and multinucleated syncytial cells. Avidin-biotin-peroxidase with Harris hematoxylin counterstain. Scale bar = 100 μm.

Figure 1. . Lung from necropsy of a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) that had fatal systemic morbillivirus infection, Canary Islands, Spain, 2005. Positive intracytoplasmic and intranuclear immunoperoxidase staining of morbilliviral antigen (red) within hyperplastic type II pneumocytes, macrophages and multinucleated syncytial cells. Avidin-biotin-peroxidase with Harris hematoxylin counterstain. Scale bar indicates 100 μm.

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