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Brucella ceti infection in dolphins from the Western Mediterranean sea
BACKGROUND: Brucella ceti infections have been increasingly reported in cetaceans. Brucellosis in these animals is associated with meningoencephalitis, abortion, discospondylitis’, subcutaneous abscesses, endometritis and other pathological conditions B. ceti infections have been frequently describe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4180538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25224818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-014-0206-7 |
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author | Isidoro-Ayza, Marcos Ruiz-Villalobos, Nazareth Pérez, Lola Guzmán-Verri, Caterina Muñoz, Pilar M Alegre, Fernando Barberán, Montserrat Chacón-Díaz, Carlos Chaves-Olarte, Esteban González-Barrientos, Rocio Moreno, Edgardo Blasco, José María Domingo, Mariano |
author_facet | Isidoro-Ayza, Marcos Ruiz-Villalobos, Nazareth Pérez, Lola Guzmán-Verri, Caterina Muñoz, Pilar M Alegre, Fernando Barberán, Montserrat Chacón-Díaz, Carlos Chaves-Olarte, Esteban González-Barrientos, Rocio Moreno, Edgardo Blasco, José María Domingo, Mariano |
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description | BACKGROUND: Brucella ceti infections have been increasingly reported in cetaceans. Brucellosis in these animals is associated with meningoencephalitis, abortion, discospondylitis’, subcutaneous abscesses, endometritis and other pathological conditions B. ceti infections have been frequently described in dolphins from both, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In the Mediterranean Sea, only two reports have been made: one from the Italian Tyrrhenian Sea and the other from the Adriatic Sea. RESULTS: We describe the clinical and pathological features of three cases of B. ceti infections in three dolphins stranded in the Mediterranean Catalonian coast. One striped dolphin had neurobrucellosis, showing lethargy, incoordination and lateral swimming due to meningoencephalitis, A B. ceti infected bottlenose dolphin had discospondylitis, and another striped dolphin did not show clinical signs or lesions related to Brucella infection. A detailed characterization of the three B. ceti isolates was performed by bacteriological, molecular, protein and fatty acid analyses. CONCLUSIONS: All the B. ceti strains originating from Mediterranean dolphins cluster together in a distinct phylogenetic clade, close to that formed by B. ceti isolates from dolphins inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean. Our study confirms the severity of pathological signs in stranded dolphins and the relevance of B. ceti as a pathogen in the Mediterranean Sea. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12917-014-0206-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-41805382014-10-03 Brucella ceti infection in dolphins from the Western Mediterranean sea Isidoro-Ayza, Marcos Ruiz-Villalobos, Nazareth Pérez, Lola Guzmán-Verri, Caterina Muñoz, Pilar M Alegre, Fernando Barberán, Montserrat Chacón-Díaz, Carlos Chaves-Olarte, Esteban González-Barrientos, Rocio Moreno, Edgardo Blasco, José María Domingo, Mariano BMC Vet Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Brucella ceti infections have been increasingly reported in cetaceans. Brucellosis in these animals is associated with meningoencephalitis, abortion, discospondylitis’, subcutaneous abscesses, endometritis and other pathological conditions B. ceti infections have been frequently described in dolphins from both, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In the Mediterranean Sea, only two reports have been made: one from the Italian Tyrrhenian Sea and the other from the Adriatic Sea. RESULTS: We describe the clinical and pathological features of three cases of B. ceti infections in three dolphins stranded in the Mediterranean Catalonian coast. One striped dolphin had neurobrucellosis, showing lethargy, incoordination and lateral swimming due to meningoencephalitis, A B. ceti infected bottlenose dolphin had discospondylitis, and another striped dolphin did not show clinical signs or lesions related to Brucella infection. A detailed characterization of the three B. ceti isolates was performed by bacteriological, molecular, protein and fatty acid analyses. CONCLUSIONS: All the B. ceti strains originating from Mediterranean dolphins cluster together in a distinct phylogenetic clade, close to that formed by B. ceti isolates from dolphins inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean. Our study confirms the severity of pathological signs in stranded dolphins and the relevance of B. ceti as a pathogen in the Mediterranean Sea. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12917-014-0206-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2014-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4180538/ /pubmed/25224818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-014-0206-7 Text en © Isidoro-Ayza et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Isidoro-Ayza, Marcos Ruiz-Villalobos, Nazareth Pérez, Lola Guzmán-Verri, Caterina Muñoz, Pilar M Alegre, Fernando Barberán, Montserrat Chacón-Díaz, Carlos Chaves-Olarte, Esteban González-Barrientos, Rocio Moreno, Edgardo Blasco, José María Domingo, Mariano Brucella ceti infection in dolphins from the Western Mediterranean sea |
title | Brucella ceti infection in dolphins from the Western Mediterranean sea |
title_full | Brucella ceti infection in dolphins from the Western Mediterranean sea |
title_fullStr | Brucella ceti infection in dolphins from the Western Mediterranean sea |
title_full_unstemmed | Brucella ceti infection in dolphins from the Western Mediterranean sea |
title_short | Brucella ceti infection in dolphins from the Western Mediterranean sea |
title_sort | brucella ceti infection in dolphins from the western mediterranean sea |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4180538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25224818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-014-0206-7 |
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