| pathological findings in harbour seals (phoca vitulina): 1996-2005. | between 1996 and 2005 the carcasses of 355 harbour seals originating from the coast of schleswig-holstein, germany, were investigated for pathological changes. the animals were collected before (n=280) and after (n=75) the second phocine distemper virus (pdv) epizootic in 2002. the seals were either found dead or were killed due to severe illness. necropsy was performed in each case, in addition to histopathological, immunohistochemical, microbiological and parasitological examinations. througho ... | 2007 | 17629967 |
| bacterial microbiota in harbor seals (phoca vitulina) from the north sea of schleswig-holstein, germany, around the time of morbillivirus and influenza epidemics. | we present microbiologic findings in harbor seal (phoca; phoca vitulina ) carcasses collected from the north sea of schleswig-holstein, germany, 1996-2014, and interpret results in relation to potential variations caused by phocine distemper virus and influenza a virus mass mortalities. we conducted microbiologic investigations on 2,124 tissue samples from lung, liver, kidney, spleen, intestine, and mesenteric lymph nodes from 549 dead harbor seals of the german north sea. a large variety of bac ... | 2017 | 28139956 |