| toxoplasmosis in atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins (tursiops truncatus). | a female atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin (tursiops truncatus) and her calf were found beached on picnic island in tampa bay, florida, usa. despite therapy the animals died. necropsy revealed severe pneumonia and lymphadenopathy in the mother and the calf, gastric ulcers and infection with the stomach digenean braunina cordiformis in the mother, and a large, pale liver in the calf. toxoplasma gondii was identified by light and electron microscopy and by immunohistochemistry in tissues of both anima ... | 1990 | 2388360 |
| uterine adenocarcinoma with generalised metastasis in a bottlenose dolphin tursiops truncatus from northern patagonia, argentina. | an endometrial adenocarcinoma with areas of squamous differentiation and generalised metastasis was observed in a bottlenose dolphin tursiops truncatus stranded in northern patagonia in july 1997. this is the second report of a uterine adenocarcinoma in a free-living cetacean and the first in a delphinidae. this neoplasm likely compromised reproduction for several years. in addition, the dolphin presented tattoo-like skin lesions and its digestive tract was infested by anisakis simplex, pseudote ... | 2002 | 12005238 |
| gastrointestinal parasites of bottlenose dolphins tursiops truncatus from the extreme southwestern atlantic, with notes on diet composition. | we surveyed the gastrointestinal tracts of 6 bottlenose dolphins tursiops truncatus from patagonia to check for helminth parasites and characterize dolphin diet. all dolphins harbored parasites (6477 helminths). we recorded 7 species, including nematodes anisakis simplex s.l., pseudoterranova decipiens, acanthocephalans corynosoma cetaceum, c. australe, and digeneans braunina cordiformis, pholeter gastrophilus and synthesium tursionis. among the gastric helminths, the most prevalent species were ... | 2014 | 24492055 |