A review of Brucella sp. infection of sea mammals with particular emphasis on isolates from Scotland

Brucellae recovered from sea mammals were first reported in 1994. In the years since both culture and serological analysis have demonstrated that the infection occurs in a wide range of species of marine mammals inhabiting a vast amount of the world’s oceans. Molecular studies have demonstrated that...

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Published in:Veterinary Microbiology
Main Authors: Foster, G, MacMillan, AP, Godfroid, J, Howie, F, Ross, HM, Cloeckaert, A, Reid, RJ, Brew, S, Patterson, IAP
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2002
Subjects:
Brucellosis
Dolphin
Epidemiology
Minke whale
Pathology
Porpoise
Reproductivity problems
Scotland
Seals
Serology
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name=SDG 14 - Life Below Water
minke whale
Online Access:https://pure.sruc.ac.uk/en/publications/c0e1ab75-6636-4a34-ba84-cec9951e4863
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1135(02)00236-5
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Summary:Brucellae recovered from sea mammals were first reported in 1994. In the years since both culture and serological analysis have demonstrated that the infection occurs in a wide range of species of marine mammals inhabiting a vast amount of the world’s oceans. Molecular studies have demonstrated that the isolates differ from those found amongst terrestrial animals and also distinguish between strains which have seals and cetaceans as their preferred hosts. At the phenotypic level seal and cetacean strains can also be differed with respect to their CO2 requirement, primary growth on Farrells medium and metabolic activity on galactose. Two new species B. cetaceae and B. pinnipediae have been proposed as a result. This paper provides a review of Brucella in sea mammals and updates findings from the study of sea mammals from around the coast of Scotland. # 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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