The light microscopic demonstration of eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies in epithelial cells and the electron microscopic demonstration of poxvirus in these inclusions has shown that sealpox occurs in free-living California sea lions, Zalophus calijornianus. This is the first evidence of a poxvirus skin infection in free-living California sea lions.
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1 April 1972
SEALPOX FIELD SURVEY
T. M. WILSON,
A. D. BOOTHE,
N. F. CHEVILLE