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Mor·bil·li·vi·rus

(mōr-bil'i-vī'rŭs),
A genus in the family Paramyxoviridae, including measles, canine distemper, and bovine rinderpest viruses.
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morbillivirus

(môr-bĭl′ĭ-vī′rəs)
n.
Any of a genus of paramyxoviruses, including the causal agents of measles and rinderpest, that infect humans and other vertebrates.
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Morbillivirus

A genus of viruses of the Paramyxoviridae family, including canine distemper virus, rinderpest virus, measles virus and equine morbillivirus, the last of which may rarely infect humans.
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Mor·bil·li·vi·rus

(mōr-bil'i-vī'rŭs)
A genus in the family Paramyxoviridae, including measles, canine distemper, and bovine rinderpest viruses.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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Mollusks as a natural reservoir of morbilliviruses. Dokl Biol Sci.
Dolphin Morbillivirus in Eurasian Otters, Italy
Two morbilliviruses implicated in bottlenose dolphin epizootics.
A Review of Marine Major Ecological Disturbances
The immune suppression is not only observed during natural infections but also after vaccination with attenuated strains of Morbilliviruses (Hussey et al.
IN VITRO STUDY OF LYMPHOTROPIC AND IMMUNOMODULATORY PROPERTIES OF THE PESTE DES PETITS RUMINANTS VIRUS (PPRV)
Several strains of morbilliviruses have been associated with illness and death in marine mammals (50).
Marine Swimming-Related Illness: Implications for Monitoring and Environmental Policy
This variation was previously reported in other related morbilliviruses (13) and does not control any change in the tertiary structure of H antigen, as determined by using the SWISS-MODEL (http://swissmodel.
Mediterranean fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) threatened by dolphin morbillivirus
Recombinant morbilliviruses (segmented or nonsegmented) containing unique rinderpest virus nucleic acid or amino acid sequences are considered to be rinderpest virus.
Identifying and reducing remaining stocks of rinderpest virus
As more sequence data become available for PPRV and the other morbilliviruses, ancestral origins of each virus and intraspecies differentiation might become more clear.
Molecular evolution of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus
CeMV is more closely related to ruminant morbilliviruses and human measles virus than to canine and phocine distemper viruses (1,2).
Cetacean morbillivirus in coastal Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, Western Australia
Serologic surveys indicate that morbilliviruses infect marine mammals worldwide (5); however, only 1 fatal case in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) has been confirmed in the Southern Hemisphere (in the southwestern Pacific Ocean) (6).
Novel Cetacean morbillivirus in Guiana dolphin, Brazil
Three cetacean morbilliviruses have been identified: porpoise morbillivirus, isolated from harbor porpoises that died along the coast of Ireland (6); dolphin morbillivirus (DMV), first identified in striped dolphins from the Mediterranean Sea (2); and pilot whale morbillivirus, isolated from a long-finned pilot whale stranded in New Jersey, USA (7).
Fatal systemic morbillivirus infection in bottlenose dolphin, Canary Islands, Spain
Morbilliviruses can switch hosts, and new ecologic niches created by the eradication of rinderpest may provide opportunities for PPR emergence in new hosts (4,5).
Peste des petits ruminants infection among cattle and wildlife in Northern Tanzania

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