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Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 42(2), 2006, pp. 412-414
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Antibodies to Brucella spp. in Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins from the Solomon Islands

Masato Tachibana1, Kenta Watanabe1, Suk Kim1, Yoshitaka Omata2, Koichi Murata3, Ted Hammond4 and Masahisa Watarai1,5

1 Department of Applied Veterinary Science, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido 080-8555, Japan;
2 Department of Basic Veterinary Science, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido 080-8555, Japan;
3 Department of Wildlife Science, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8510, Japan;
4 Hammond Consultants Inc., 1881 Rouge River Circle, Ventura, California 93004, USA
5 Corresponding author (email: watarai{at}obihiro.ac.jp)

ABSTRACT:   Brucella spp. have been recently isolated from a variety of marine mammals. Serum samples from 58 Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursipa aduncus) from the Solomon Islands were tested for antibodies to Brucella spp. by the tube agglutination test (TAT), enzymed-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and immunoblotting. Anti-Brucella spp. antibodies were detected by TAT and ELISA in 31 and 40 of 58 samples, respectively. These results suggest that Pacific bottlenose dolphins from the Solomon Islands are infected with Brucella spp. or a Brucella-like organism.
  Key words:  Bottlenose dolphin, Brucella, Solomon Islands.






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