Table 2 The samples used in this study and positive results.

From: A simultaneous diagnosis and genotyping method for global surveillance of cetacean morbillivirus

Species

Years

Countries

Virus

Original diagnosis

Organs tested in this study

P1 Cq ± SD/Tm ± SD

P2 Cq ± SD/Tm ± SD

Literature cited

Globicephala macrorhynchus

1996

Canary Islands, Spain

PWMV

RT-PCR

C

29.70 ± 0.16/80.01 ± 0.07

28.37 ± 0.03/79.22 ± 0.07

11

Tursiops truncatus

2005

Canary Islands, Spain

DMV

IHC, RT-PCR

LN

22.03 ± 0.14/79.53 ± 0.06

26.05 ± 0.05/79.36 ± 0.07

12

G. melas

2007

Spain

DMV

IHC, RT-PCR

C, L, LN, S

21.24 ± 0.38/79.53 ± 0.05

22.99 ± 0.41/79.41 ± 0.03

13

Stenella coeruleoalba

2008

Canary Islands, Spain

DMV

IHC, RT-PCR

C

25.7 ± 0.26/79.54 ± 0.06

29.1 ± 0.51/79.41 ± 0.06

14

 

2011

Canary Islands, Spain

DMV

IHC, RT-PCR

C

27.96 ± 0.81/80.11 ± 0.04

29.1 ± 0.51/79.40 ± 0.07

14

Indopacetus pacificus

2010

Hawaii, USA

CeMV NL

IHC, RT-PCR

LN, S

28.59 ± 0.15/80.40 ± 0.01

30.83 ± 0.36/79.72 ± 0.06

6

Sotalia guianensis

2010

Espirito Santo, Brazil

CeMV NL

IHC, RT-PCR

LN

32.53 ± 0.54/78.92 ± 0.09

32.23 ± 0.24/78.51 ± 0.08

15

20 species*

2005–2013

Taiwan

Negative

 

L, LN, S

NA

NA

This study

  1. Abbreviations are: PWMV = pilot whale morbillivirus, DMV = dolphin morbillivirus, CeMV = cetacean morbillivirus, NL = new lineage of CeMV, C = cerebrum, L = lung, LN = lymph node, S = spleen, Cq = quantification cycle, Tm = melt peak temperature, SD = standard deviation. *Balaenoptera acutorostrata, B. omurai, Physeter macrocephalus, Kogia breviceps, K. sima, Neophocaena phocaenoides, Steno bredanensis, Sousa chinensis, Grampus griseus, Tursiops truncatus, Stenella attenuata, S. longirostris, S. coeruleoalba, Lagenodelphis hosei, Peponocephala electra, Feresa attenuata, Pseudorca crassidens, Globicephala macrorhynchus, Ziphius cavirostris, Mesoplodon densirostris.