Diagnosis and successful treatment of subacute erysipelas in a captive dolphin.

摘要: Ersipelas, a common disease of swine, is caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae. The organism was isolated in blood culture taken from an infected captive dolphin. dolphin showed typical subacute symptoms square- and diamond-shaped skin lesions as seen swine. It surmised, retrospect, that the secondary to primary pneumonia. symptoms, clinical pathology other special examinations, treatment response are discussed.