Isolation of Leptospira from a Phocid: Acute Renal Failure and Mortality from Leptospirosis in Rehabilitated Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris), California, USA

• Published in: Journal of Wildlife Diseases
• Main Authors: Delaney, Martha A., Colegrove, Kathleen M., Spraker, Terry R., Zuerner, Richard L., Galloway, Renee L., Gulland, Frances M. D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Article; Pomona; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6397957/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24807176; https://doi.org/10.7589/2013-08-195

During rehabilitation, acute renal failure due to leptospirosis occurred in eight male northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) that stranded along the central California coast in 2011. Characteristic histologic lesions including renal tubular degeneration, necrosis, and mineralization, and...