Cetacean morbillivirus, a journey from land to sea and viceversa

Cetacean Morbillivirus ◽

Cetacean Morbillivirus, the most relevant pathogen impacting the health and conservation of cetaceans worldwide, has shown in recent years an increased tendency to cross “interspecies barriers”, thereby giving rise to disease and mortality outbreaks in free-ranging dolphins and whales. This "Perspective” article deals with the evolutionary “trajectories” of this viral pathogen, likely originating from Rinderpest Virus, along with its "journey" from land to sea (and viceversa), mimicking that of cetaceans' terrestrial ancestors.

Cetacean morbillivirus, a journey from land to sea and vice versa

10.7287/peerj.preprints.27487v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Giovanni Di Guardo ◽

Sandro Mazzariol

Keyword(s):

Rinderpest Virus ◽

Viral Pathogen ◽

Cetacean Morbillivirus ◽

Free Ranging ◽

Opinion Article

Cetacean Morbillivirus, the most relevant pathogen impacting the health and conservation of cetaceans worldwide, has shown in recent years an increased tendency to cross “interspecies barriers”, thereby giving rise to disease and mortality outbreaks in free-ranging dolphins and whales. The present “Opinion Article” deals with the evolutionary “trajectories” of this viral pathogen, likely originating from Rinderpest Virus, along with its "journey" from land to sea (and vice versa), mimicking that of cetaceans' terrestrial ancestors.

Cetacean morbillivirus, a journey from land to sea and viceversa

10.31230/osf.io/znvpk ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Giovanni Di Guardo ◽

Sandro Mazzariol

Keyword(s):

Rinderpest Virus ◽

Personal View ◽

Viral Pathogen ◽

Cetacean Morbillivirus ◽

Cetacean Morbillivirus, the most relevant pathogen impacting the health and conservation of cetaceans worldwide, has shown in recent years an increased tendency to cross “interspecies barriers”, thereby giving rise to disease and mortality outbreaks in free-ranging dolphins and whales. This "Personal View" deals with the evolutionary “trajectories” of this viral pathogen, likely originating from Rinderpest Virus, along with its "journey" from land to sea (and viceversa), mimicking that of cetaceans' terrestrial ancestors.

Cetacean morbillivirus, a journey from land to sea and viceversa

10.32942/osf.io/8anej ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Giovanni Di Guardo ◽

Sandro Mazzariol

Keyword(s):

Rinderpest Virus ◽

Personal View ◽

Viral Pathogen ◽

Cetacean Morbillivirus ◽

Cetacean Morbillivirus, the most relevant pathogen impacting the health and conservation of cetaceans worldwide, has shown in recent years an increased tendency to cross “interspecies barriers”, thereby giving rise to disease and mortality outbreaks in free-ranging dolphins and whales. This "Personal View" deals with the evolutionary “trajectories” of this viral pathogen, likely originating from Rinderpest Virus, along with its "journey" from land to sea (and viceversa), mimicking that of cetaceans' terrestrial ancestors.

Cetacean morbillivirus, a journey from land to sea and vice versa

10.7287/peerj.preprints.27487 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Giovanni Di Guardo ◽

Sandro Mazzariol

Keyword(s):

Rinderpest Virus ◽

Viral Pathogen ◽

Cetacean Morbillivirus ◽

Free Ranging ◽

Opinion Article

Cetacean Morbillivirus, the most relevant pathogen impacting the health and conservation of cetaceans worldwide, has shown in recent years an increased tendency to cross “interspecies barriers”, thereby giving rise to disease and mortality outbreaks in free-ranging dolphins and whales. The present “Opinion Article” deals with the evolutionary “trajectories” of this viral pathogen, likely originating from Rinderpest Virus, along with its "journey" from land to sea (and vice versa), mimicking that of cetaceans' terrestrial ancestors.

Cetacean Morbillivirus, a Journey from Land to Sea and viceversa

10.20944/preprints201901.0157.v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Giovanni Di Guardo ◽

Sandro Mazzariol

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Rinderpest Virus ◽

Viral Pathogen ◽

Cetacean Morbillivirus ◽

Cetacean Morbillivirus, the most relevant pathogen impacting the health and conservation of cetaceans worldwide, has shown in recent years an increased tendency to cross “interspecies barriers”, thereby giving rise to disease and mortality outbreaks in free-ranging dolphins and whales. The present article deals with the evolutionary “trajectories” of this viral pathogen, likely originating from Rinderpest Virus, along with its “journey” from land to sea (and viceversa), mimicking that of cetaceans' terrestrial ancestors.

Concurrent Infection of Skunk Adenovirus-1, Listeria monocytogenes, and a Regionally Specific Clade of Canine Distemper Virus in One Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) and Concurrent Listeriosis and Canine Distemper in a Second Gray Fox

Pathogens ◽

10.3390/pathogens9070591 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. 591

Author(s):

David B. Needle ◽

Jacqueline L. Marr ◽

Cooper J. Park ◽

Cheryl P. Andam ◽

Annabel G. Wise ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Listeria Monocytogenes ◽

New England ◽

Canine Distemper ◽

Urocyon Cinereoargenteus ◽

Viral Pathogen ◽

Bronchial Epithelial ◽

Gray Fox ◽

Associated Lesions ◽

One Year ◽

One free-ranging Gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) underwent autopsy following neurologic disease, with findings including morbilliviral inclusions and associated lesions in numerous tissues, adenoviral intranuclear inclusions in bronchial epithelial cells, and septic pleuropneumonia, hepatitis, splenitis, and meningoencephalitis. Molecular diagnostics on fresh lung identified a strain within a distinct clade of canine distemper that is currently unique to wildlife in New England, as well as the emerging multi-host viral pathogen skunk adenovirus-1. Bacterial culture of fresh liver resulted in a pure growth of Listeria monocytogenes, with whole genome sequencing indicating that the isolate had a vast array of antimicrobial resistance and virulence-associated genes. One year later, a second fox was euthanized for inappropriate behavior in a residential area, and diagnostic workup revealed canine distemper and septic L. monocytogenes, with the former closely related to the distemper virus found in the previous fox and the latter divergent from the L. monocytogenes from the previous fox.

SARS-CoV-2 infection in free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

10.1101/2021.11.04.467308 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Vanessa L Hale ◽

Patricia M Dennis ◽

Dillon S McBride ◽

Jacqueline M Nolting ◽

Christopher Madden ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Odocoileus Virginianus ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Animal Reservoir ◽

Natural Reservoir ◽

Wide Range ◽

Human-to-animal spillover of SARS-CoV-2 virus has occurred in a wide range of animals, but thus far, the establishment of a new natural animal reservoir has not been detected. Here, we detected SARS-CoV-2 virus using rRT-PCR in 129 out of 360 (35.8%) free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from northeast Ohio (USA) sampled between January-March 2021. Deer in 6 locations were infected with at least 3 lineages of SARS-CoV-2 (B.1.2, B.1.596, B.1.582). The B.1.2 viruses, dominant in Ohio at the time, spilled over multiple times into deer populations in different locations. Deer-to-deer transmission may have occurred in three locations. The establishment of a natural reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer could facilitate divergent evolutionary trajectories and future spillback to humans, further complicating long-term COVID-19 control strategies.