Brucella infection in rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis) with severe orchitis stranded on the Pacific coast of Japan.

Kazue Ohishi, Yuko Tajima, Erika Abe, Tadasu K Yamada, Tadashi Maruyama

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Article in The Journal of veterinary medical science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Kazue OhishiDepartment of Clinical Engineering, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, Japan.

Yuko TajimaNational Museum of Nature and Science, Ibaraki, Japan.

Erika AbeDepartment of Marine Biosciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

Tadasu K YamadaNational Museum of Nature and Science, Ibaraki, Japan.

Tadashi MaruyamaSchool of Marine Biosciences, Kitasato University, Kanagawa, Japan.

National Museum of Nature and Science · JPKanagawa Institute of Technology · JPKitasato University · JPTokyo University of Marine Science and Technology · JP

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Abstract

In the western North Pacific, prominent granulomatous testes have been detected in many Brucella-infected common minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), but there have been no reports in toothed cetaceans. We found severe orchitis with granulomatous lesions in a rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis) stranded on the Pacific coast of Japan in 2011. Histopathological examination revealed leukocyte infiltration of the lesions. DNA from the lesion was analyzed by PCR and it showed molecular biological similarities with those of Brucella-infected common minke whales and Brucella ceti of sequence-type 27 (ST27). These results suggest that the type of Brucella ceti that infected the dolphin was ST27, which may have caused severe orchitis. This study adds to our understanding of Brucella infections in marine mammals.

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BrucellaBrucellosisDolphinsMinke WhaleOrchitisAnimalsCetaceaJapanMaleBrucellacetaceandolphinorchitistestis

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PMID38267042

DOI10.1292/jvms.23-0270

PMCPMC10963093

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