1. An Eight-Year Survey for Canine Distemper Virus Indicates Lack of Exposure in the Endangered Darwin's Fox (Lycalopex fulvipes)
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Sophia Di Cataldo, Aitor Cevidanes, Christian Mathieu-Benson, Ezequiel Hidalgo-Hermoso, Carlos Torres Navarro, Javier Millán, Constanza Napolitano, Darío Moreira-Arce, Hedy Kroeger-Gómez, Edward J. Dubovi, Consuelo Vega, Javier Cabello, and Irene Sacristán
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Ecology ,040301 veterinary sciences ,Canine distemper ,viruses ,animal diseases ,030231 tropical medicine ,Endangered species ,virus diseases ,Zoology ,Darwin's fox ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,Biology ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Virus ,0403 veterinary science ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,parasitic diseases ,Lycalopex fulvipes ,medicine ,population characteristics ,High population ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Abstract
No evidence of exposure to canine distemper virus (CDV) was detected in 70 samples corresponding to 58 wild-trapped Darwin's foxes (Lycalopex fulvipes) in Chile. Given its current endangered status and it being immunologically naive, in the event of a CDV spillover from dogs to foxes, high population mortality is expected.
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- 2020
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