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Science (September 13, 2011)

Like their terrestrial counterparts, marine mammals are colonized by several bacteria, some of which are friendly and others that can cause disease. Bacteria from the whales and seals, but poorly documented, in contrast to most terrestrial species. Doctoral student Jeffrey Foster, a detailed study of gram-negative bacteria recovered from marine mammals and found that some of those recovered are important not only for host animals from which they were found. Jeffrey Foster's doctoral dissertation examined the gram-negative bacteria contamination of marine mammals. Accurate identification of organisms is a fundamental basis for the study of diseases in animals. While a well-developed discipline of bacteriology for medical and terrestrial animals, much less is known about the organisms that infect marine mammals, their importance to the owners and can act as zoonotic agents. Bacteria were isolated from whales and seals are stranded around the Scottish coastline, while others come from submissions from across Europe, the Caspian Sea and the Antarctic. Detailed phenotypic and phylogenetic analysis resulted in a description of two new genera and five new species. Some of the bacteria studied in the range of groups that are already considered to be zoonoses, including selections

first of several Brucella species of whales and seals. Brucellosis is endemic in marine mammals, the WHO / FAO for brucellosis as the most important bacterial zoonosis in the world. The first isolation of Brucella

marine mammals has been done in Inverness and the evidence of the subsequent investigations and surveillance throughout the world have shown that these organisms are endemic among the whales and seals. Marine Mammals >> << Brucella has been shown that differ from species that infect terrestrial animals, and differences were found between those of cetaceans as preferred, and those out of print. Salmonella and Campylobacter, are adapted to strattera online marine mammals, Salmonella and Campylobacter are two other bacterial genera that are considered zoonoses, resulting in conditions of gastroenteritis, septicemia, and sometimes other diseases. A surprise finding was

types of salmonella that is tailored to the owner of porpoises and atypical in many respects compared to the other members of the genus. In particular, this organism appears to reside mainly in the lung tissue, which is in sharp contrast to other

salmonella, which is usually colonization of the intestine. Campylobacter is a genus of bacteria that are associated with members of gastroenteritis in humans and abortion in cattle. A new species of

Campylobacter was detected with the seals and a pig in Scotland. The body has since been reported worldwide, but whether it has the potential to cause diseases of marine mammals or any other species remains unknown at present. Host-adapted members of the Pasteurellaceae Pasteurellaceae common inhabitants of the mucous membranes of mammals and many species to the specific host species, and sometimes commensals, while others may be pathogenic. Three new species of

Pasteurellaceae have been described from cetaceans. One of those

Actinobacillus delphinicola frequently recovered from various species of cetaceans, while the other,

Actinobacillus scotiae much less frequently and in three porpoise carcasses, from which it was rebuilt it was the cause of sepsis. A unique ribotype of Bordetella bronchiseptica infects seals in the North Sea, Bordetella bronchiseptica has been a major cause of secondary bacterial infection and death during an outbreak of morbillivirus of seals. The collection of isolates of morbillivirus epidemic of the North Sea seals in 1988 and 2002, as well as strains collected during non-outbreak years, and one isolate from Denmark have been found belong to the same ribotype. This contrasts with other species, for which ribotyping proved to be more discriminatory. Recommend this story on Facebook, Twitter

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