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. 1996 Jul-Sep;2(3):213–216. doi: 10.3201/eid0203.960308

Two morbilliviruses implicated in bottlenose dolphin epizootics.

J K Taubenberger 1, M Tsai 1, A E Krafft 1, J H Lichy 1, A H Reid 1, F Y Schulman 1, T P Lipscomb 1
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