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¹ Veterinary Laboratories Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, United Kingdom
² Veterinary Laboratories Agency Truro, Polwhele, Truro, Cornwall TR4 9AD, United Kingdom
³ Animal Health Office, Defra, Pydar House, Pydar Street, Truro TR1 2XD, United Kingdom
⁴ Corresponding author (email: c.e.dawson{at}vla.defra.gsi.gov.uk)

ABSTRACT:   Adult female nematodes identified as Pseudalius inflexus were collected from the lungs of a juvenile male harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) found dead on a beach in Cornwall, UK. Classic and molecular typing methods, immunologic and electron microscopy immunolabeling techniques, provided evidence of Brucella sp. infection within the uterine tissue of nematodes of this marine mammal. This finding presents further evidence to suggest parasites should be considered as a potential means of transfer of bacterial infection in marine mammals and highlights the zoonotic implications for humans exposed to marine mammals through occupation or leisure.
  Key words:  Brucella, lungworms, Phocoena phocoena, transmission electron microscopy.