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Alphaherpesvirus Infection In A Free-Ranging Narwhal Monodon Monoceros From Arctic Canada, Ole Nielsen, Thaís C.S. Rodrigues, Marianne Marcoux, Karine Béland, Kuttichantran Subramaniam, Stéphane Lair, Nigel E. Hussey, Thomas B. Waltzek
Alphaherpesvirus Infection In A Free-Ranging Narwhal Monodon Monoceros From Arctic Canada, Ole Nielsen, Thaís C.S. Rodrigues, Marianne Marcoux, Karine Béland, Kuttichantran Subramaniam, Stéphane Lair, Nigel E. Hussey, Thomas B. Waltzek
Integrative Biology Publications
We report the detection of an alphaherpesvirus infecting an adult female narwhal Monodon monoceros captured live during a tagging project in Tremblay Sound, Nunavut, Canada, in August 2018. The individual had 2 open wounds on the dorsum but appeared in good overall health. A blowhole swab was collected, and subsequent virus isolation was performed using a beluga whale primary cell line. Non-syncytial cytopathic effects were seen, in contrast to syncytial cytopathic effects described for monodontid alphaherpesvirus 1 (MoAHV1) isolates previously recovered from beluga whales Delphinapterus leucas from Alaska, USA, and the Northwest Territories, Canada. Next-generation sequencing was performed on a …