Isolation of a Seawater Tolerant Leptospira spp. from a Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis).

ABSTRACT: Leptospirosis is the most widespread zoonotic disease in the world. It is caused by pathogenic spirochetes of the genus Leptospira spp. and is maintained in nature through chronic renal infection of carrier animals. Rodents and other small mammals are the main reservoirs. Information on leptospirosis in marine mammals is scarce; however, cases of leptospirosis have been documented in pinniped populations from the Pacific coast of North America from southern California to British Columbia. We report the isolation of a Leptospira spp. strain, here named Manara, from a kidney sample obtained from a Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) calf, which stranded dead in Playa Manara, Península Valdés, Argentina. This strain showed motility and morphology typical of the genus Leptospira spp. un

SUBMITTER: Grune Loffler S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4700976 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature