MORPHOLOGIC EVIDENCE OF POXVIRUS IN “TATTOO” LESIONS FROM CAPTIVE BOTTLENOSED DOLPHINS1

JAMES O. FLOM; EDWARD J. HOUK

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-15.4.593

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1 October 1979 MORPHOLOGIC EVIDENCE OF POXVIRUS IN “TATTOO” LESIONS FROM CAPTIVE BOTTLENOSED DOLPHINS

JAMES O. FLOM, EDWARD J. HOUK

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 15(4):593-596 (1979). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-15.4.593

Abstract

Skin lesions known as “tattoos”, were observed in several captive Atlantic bottlenosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) maintained at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California. Biopsy of typical lesions and subsequent ultrastructural examination revealed intracytoplasmic particles with poxvirus morphology.

FLOM and HOUK: MORPHOLOGIC EVIDENCE OF POXVIRUS IN “TATTOO” LESIONS FROM CAPTIVE BOTTLENOSED DOLPHINS1

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JAMES O. FLOM and EDWARD J. HOUK "MORPHOLOGIC EVIDENCE OF POXVIRUS IN “TATTOO” LESIONS FROM CAPTIVE BOTTLENOSED DOLPHINS," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 15(4), 593-596, (1 October 1979). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-15.4.593

Received: 15 December 1978; Published: 1 October 1979

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