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SOME HISTOPATHOLOGICAL LESIONS CAUSED BY HELMINTHS IN MARINE MAMMALS
1 Comparative Pathology Branch, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C. 20305
2 Marine Bioscience Facility, Naval Undersea Research and Development Center, Point Mugu, California 93042
3 Biological Sonar Laboratory, Marine Mammal Study Center, Fremont, California 94536
Microscopic lesions caused by helminths discussed in this paper are verminous pneumonia, gastric ulcers, and ulcerative enterocolitis in the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus); biliary fibrosis and pulmonary granulomas in the dall porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli); and gastric fibrosis in an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and a Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops gilli).
Submitted on May 28, 1971
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