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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jensen, Trine H.
• Christensen, Laurids S.
• Chriél, Mariann
• Harslund, Jakob
• Salomonsen, Charlotte M.
• Hammer, Anne Sofie

Titel

High Prevalence of Aleutian Mink Disease Virus in Free-ranging Mink on a Remote Danish Island

Ist Teil von

• Journal of wildlife diseases, 2012-04, Vol.48 (2), p.497-502

Ort / Verlag

United States: Wildlife Disease Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Aleutian mink disease virus (AMDV) causes severe disease in farmed mink (Neovison vison) worldwide. In Denmark, AMDV in farmed mink has been confined to the northern part of the mainland since 2002. From 1998 to 2009, samples from 396 free-ranging mink were collected from mainland Denmark, and a low AMDV antibody prevalence (3% of 296) was found using countercurrent immune electrophoresis. However, on the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, a high prevalence (45% of 142 mink) was detected in the free-ranging mink. Aleutian mink disease virus was detected by polymerase chain reaction in 32 of 49 antibody-positive free-ranging mink on Bornholm, but not in mink collected from other parts of Denmark. Sequence analysis of 370 base pairs of the nonstructural gene of the AMDV of 17 samples revealed two clusters with closest similarity to Swedish AMDV strains.