Brucella sp. vertebral osteomyelitis with intercurrent fatal staphylococcus aureus toxigenic enteritis in a bottlenose dolphin (tursiops truncatus)

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 845-851

  Goertz, Caroline E C ^a   Frasca Jr , Salvatore ^b   Bohach, Gregory A ^c   Cowan, Daniel F ^d   Buck, John D ^e   French, Richard A ^b   De Guise, Sylvain ^b   Maratea, Jennifer ^b   Hinckley, Lynn ^b   Ewalt, Darla ^f   Schlievert, Patrick M ^g   Karst, Sheila M ^c   Deobald, Claudia F ^c   St Aubin, David J ^a   Dunn, J Lawrence ^a  

^a Sea Research Foundation Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^e MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^f National Veterinary Services Laboratories   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brucella; marine mammal medicine; necrotizing enteritis; staphylococcal enterotoxin A; staphylococcal exotoxin; Staphylococcus aureus; vertebral osteomyelitis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; ENTERITIS; FATALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; ENTERITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALIA; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA SP.; MAMMALIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SP.; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 84857136570     PISSN: 10406387     EISSN: 19434936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1040638711407683     Document Type: Article

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