Table 3.
Morbillivirus PCR and IHC results for three dolphin species in SA collected during 2005–2013. (Numbers to the left of the forward slash are positive dolphins; numbers to the right are dolphins tested.)
| 2005–2010 |
2011–2012 |
2013 |
total |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| species | PCR | IHC | PCR | IHC | PCR | IHC | PCR | IHC |
| Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin | ||||||||
| SVG | 0/1 | 0/2 | 4/6 | 0/4 | 29/30a | 19/28 | 33/37 | 19/34 |
| outside SVG | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 2/4 | 0/4 | 2/5 | 0/5 |
| common bottlenose dolphin | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/2 | 1/1 | 1/2 | 1/1 |
| short-beaked common dolphin | 0/2 | 0/2 | 2/2 | 0/2 | 8/8 | 0/8 | 10/12 | 0/12 |
aNegative dolphin collected in January 2013, prior to the beginning of UME.