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1 January 1991 Evidence of Prenatal Infection in the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncates) with the Lungworm Halocercus lagenorhynchi (Nematoda: Pseudaliidae)
Murray Dailey, Mike Walsh, Daniel Odell, Terry Campbell
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Abstract

Adult lung nematodes identified as Halocercus lagenorhynchi were collected from the lungs of four Tursiops truncatus calves. The calves ranged in age from newborn to 3-wk-old and were found on both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Florida (USA). This finding suggests the possibility of a more cosmopolitan distribution of prenatal infection with lung nematodes in cetaceans than previously suspected.

Murray Dailey, Mike Walsh, Daniel Odell, and Terry Campbell "Evidence of Prenatal Infection in the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncates) with the Lungworm Halocercus lagenorhynchi (Nematoda: Pseudaliidae)," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 27(1), 164-165, (1 January 1991). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-27.1.164
Received: 26 March 1990; Published: 1 January 1991
KEYWORDS
Bottlenose dolphin
Halocercus lagenorhynchi
lung nematodes
Prenatal infections
Tursiops truncatus
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