Publications

infection due to mycobacterium avium subsp. avium in a free-ranging common seal (phoca vitulina) in scotland.

we describe the first reported case of mycobacterial infection in a free-ranging pinniped in the northern hemisphere. acid-fast bacteria were demonstrated histologically in the liver of an adult female common seal (phoca vitulina), and mycobacterium avium subsp. avium was cultured from the liver.