Short-Finned Pilot Whale Strandings Associated with Pilot Whale Morbillivirus, Brazil

Samira Costa-Silva; Carlos Sacristán; Rodrigo M Soares; Vitor L Carvalho; Pedro V Castilho; Marta J Cremer; Ana Carolina Ewbank; Arícia Duarte-Benvenuto; Thalita Faita; Pedro E Navas-Suárez; Jenyffer V Vieira; Letícia G Pereira; Carolina F Alves; Gabriela C Souza; Giulia G Lemos; Natália Silvestre-Perez; José L Catão-Dias; Lara B Keid

doi:10.3201/eid2901.221549

Short-Finned Pilot Whale Strandings Associated with Pilot Whale Morbillivirus, Brazil

Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Jan;29(1):214-217. doi: 10.3201/eid2901.221549.

Authors

Samira Costa-Silva, Carlos Sacristán, Rodrigo M Soares, Vitor L Carvalho, Pedro V Castilho, Marta J Cremer, Ana Carolina Ewbank, Arícia Duarte-Benvenuto, Thalita Faita, Pedro E Navas-Suárez, Jenyffer V Vieira, Letícia G Pereira, Carolina F Alves, Gabriela C Souza, Giulia G Lemos, Natália Silvestre-Perez, José L Catão-Dias, Lara B Keid

Abstract

Cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV) causes illness and death in cetaceans worldwide; the CeMV strains circulating in the Southern Hemisphere are poorly known. We detected a pilot whale CeMV strain in 3 short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) stranded in Brazil during July-October 2020. Our results confirm this virus circulates in this species.

Keywords: Brazil; Brazil. Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Jan [date cited]. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2901.221549; Carvalho VL; Castilho PV; Cremer MJ; Sacristán C; Soares RM; South America; Suggested citation for this article: Costa-Silva S; cetacean; et al. Short-finned pilot whale strandings associated with pilot whale morbillivirus; herpesvirus; morbillivirus; pilot whale; stranding; viruses.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Brazil / epidemiology
Morbillivirus Infections* / diagnosis
Morbillivirus Infections* / veterinary
Morbillivirus* / genetics
Whales, Pilot*

Supplementary concepts

Cetacean morbillivirus