Seroprevalence Survey for Microsporidia in Common Bottlenose Dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus): Example of a Quantitative Approach Based on Immunoblotting

Guillaume Desoubeaux; Roman Peschke; Carolina Le-Bert; Vanessa Fravel; Jeny Soto; Eric D Jensen; Jennifer E Flower; Randall Wells; Anja Joachim; Carolyn Cray

doi:10.7589/2017-11-287

Seroprevalence Survey for Microsporidia in Common Bottlenose Dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus): Example of a Quantitative Approach Based on Immunoblotting

J Wildl Dis. 2018 Oct;54(4):870-873. doi: 10.7589/2017-11-287. Epub 2018 May 9.

Authors

Guillaume Desoubeaux^{1

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3}, Roman Peschke⁴, Carolina Le-Bert⁵, Vanessa Fravel⁶, Jeny Soto¹, Eric D Jensen⁷, Jennifer E Flower⁸, Randall Wells⁹, Anja Joachim⁴, Carolyn Cray¹

Affiliations

¹ 1 Division of Comparative Pathology, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, 1600 NW 10th Avenue #7101A, Miami, Florida 33136, USA.
² 2 Service de Parasitologie-Mycologie-Médecine Tropicale, CHU de Tours, 2 Boulevard Tonnellé, Tours 37044, France.
³ 3 CEPR-INSERM U1100/Équipe 3, Faculté de Médecine, Université François-Rabelais, 10 Boulevard Tonnellé, Tours 37032, France.
⁴ 4 Institute of Parasitology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Veterinärpl. 1, Vienna 1210, Austria.
⁵ 5 National Marine Mammal Foundation, 2240 Shelter Island Drive, Suite 200, San Diego, California 92106, USA.
⁶ 6 Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, 1001 Fairgrounds Drive, Vallejo, California 94589, USA.
⁷ 7 US Navy Marine Mammal Program, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, 53560 Hull Street, San Diego, California 92152, USA.
⁸ 8 Mystic Aquarium, a division of Sea Research Foundation Inc., 55 Coogan Boulevard, Mystic, Connecticut 06355, USA.
⁹ 9 Chicago Zoological Society's Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, c/o Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota, Florida 34236, USA.

PMID: 29741999
DOI: 10.7589/2017-11-287

Abstract

Little is known about microsporidiosis pathogenicity in cetaceans. Here we report seroprevalence of 76% for microsporidia in blood samples from common bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus), from animals managed under human care ( n=108) or captured for health assessments ( n=13) and released.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Animals
Bottle-Nosed Dolphin / blood*
Immunoblotting
Microsporidia / isolation & purification*
Mycoses / microbiology
Mycoses / veterinary*
Sensitivity and Specificity
Seroepidemiologic Studies