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The distemper virus is very closely related to measles virus and the spectrum of canine and human diseases show remarkable similarities. In addition to the common acute disease there are occasional development of a perivascular demyelinating disease and the rare occurrence of chronic CNS infection. In man this presumably may occur as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.
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Lund, E. (1979). Canine Distemper Encephalitis. In: Tyrrell, D.A.J. (eds) Aspects of Slow and Persistent Virus Infections. New Perspectives in Clinical Microbiology, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9339-6_6
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