Leptospirosis in rehabilitated Pacific harbor seals from California

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 407-410

  Andrew Stamper, M ^a   Gulland, Frances M D ^b   Spraker, Terry ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Wildlife Pathology International   (United States)

Author keywords

Case report; Harbor seal; Leptospira interrogans serovar grippotyphosa; Leptospirosis; Phoca vitulina richardsii; Renal disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NEPHRITIS; PATHOLOGY; PHOCA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CALIFORNIA; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; NEPHRITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEALS, EARLESS; WEIL DISEASE;

EID: 0032043848     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-34.2.407     Document Type: Article

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