Congenital Toxoplasmosis in a Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)
Congenital Toxoplasmosis in a Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)
复制标题
印度太平洋宽吻海豚 (Tursiops aduncus) 的先天性弓形虫病
作者:
J. Jardine;J. P. Dubey;J. P. Dubey
Toxoplasma gondii was identified in tissues of a stillborn late-term fetus from an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus). Myocardial necrosis and nonsuppurative inflammation in the heart and nonsuppurative necrotizing encephalitis were associated with tachyzoites and tissue cysts. The diagnosis was confirmed by immunohistochemical staining with anti-T. gondii-specific polyclonal rabbit serum.