| meningoencephalitis associated with carnobacterium maltaromaticum-like bacteria in stranded juvenile salmon sharks (lamna ditropis). | juvenile salmon sharks beach yearly along the california coast, primarily during late summer and early fall. fresh, frozen, and formalin-fixed tissues from 19 stranded salmon sharks were collected for examination. histopathology revealed meningitis or meningoencephalitis in 18 of 19 shark brains with intralesional bacteria observed in 6 of the affected brains. bacterial culture of fresh or frozen brain, liver, and/or heart blood from 13 sharks yielded pure cultures characterized molecularly and/ ... | 2013 | 22452824 |