Experimental Challenge of Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) with a Brucella pinnipedialis Strain from Hooded Seal (Cystophora cristata).

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Ingebjørg Helena Nymo, Marit Seppola, Sascha Al Dahouk, Kathrine Ryvold Bakkemo, María Pilar Jiménez de Bagüés, Jacques Godfroid, Anett Kristin Larsen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Seal Point; atlantic cod; Cystophora cristata; Gadus morhua; hooded seal
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159272; https://doaj.org/article/71c7647992dd4512a765d1126cb5e496

Pathology has not been observed in true seals infected with Brucella pinnipedialis. A lack of intracellular survival and multiplication of B. pinnipedialis in hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) macrophages in vitro indicates a lack of chronic infection in hooded seals. Both epidemiology and bacteriol...