Experimental challenge of atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) with a brucella pinnipedialis strain from hooded seal (Cystophora cristata)

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Nymo, I.H., Seppola, M., Dahouk, S.A., Bakkemo, K.R., De Bagüés, M.P.J., Godfroid, J., Larsen, A.K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Seal Point; atlantic cod; Cystophora cristata; Gadus morhua; hooded seal
• Online Access: http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/56748; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159272

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...