Humoral immune responses to phocine herpesvirus-1 in Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardsii) during an outbreak of clinical disease
Humoral immune responses to phocine herpesvirus-1 in Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardsii) during an outbreak of clinical disease
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DOI:
10.1016/s0378-1135(00)00369-2
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发表时间:
2001-05-03
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Stott, JL
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作者:
King, DP;Lie, AR;Stott, JL
Infection with phocine herpesvirus type-1 (PHV-1) has been associated with morbidity and high mortality in neonatal harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). A PHV-1 specific indirect enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed to sequentially measure the serological status of 106 harbor seal neonates admitted to a Pacific coast rehabilitation center (total number of sera rested was 371), Early in the season (February-April), the majority of pups had low serum levels of PHV-1 specific antibody. A dramatic increase in PHV-1 specific antibody, involving the majority of hospitalized pups, was observed during a 4-week period in May. This coincided with a high incidence of PHV-1 associated adrenal lesions and mortality. Although there was overall agreement between the timing of seroconversion to PHV-1 and histological evidence of PHV-1 infection, 82.4% of individual pups with adrenalitis had no evidence of a humoral response to PHV-1 at the time of their death. This suggests either a rapid disease course, or an inability to develop a humoral response in some neonatal seals. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.