Epidemiological pattern of tattoo skin disease: a potential general health indicator for cetaceans.

作者: Marie-Françoise Van Bressem , Koen Van Waerebeek , Francisco Javier Aznar , Juan Antonio Raga , Paul D Jepson

DOI: 10.3354/DAO02080

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摘要: The presence of tattoo skin disease (TSD) was examined in 1392 free-ranging and dead odontocetes comprising 17 species from the Americas, Europe, South Africa, New Zealand Greenland. We investigated whether TSD prevalence varied with sex, age health status. encountered cetaceans Pacific Atlantic Oceans as well those North, Mediterranean Tasman Seas. No clear patterns related to geography host phylogeny were detected, except that juveniles and, 2 (dusky dolphin Lageno- rhynchus obscurus Burmeister's porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis), adults remarkably high samples Peru. Environmental factors virus properties may be responsible for this finding. Sex did not significantly influence case Peruvian P. spinipinnis. Gen- erally, there a pattern increase compared calves, attributed loss maternal immunity. Also, most samples, seemed have higher probability suffering than adults, presumably because more had acquired active immunity following infection. This holo-endemic inverted poor short-beaked common dolphins Delphinus delphis harbour porpoises phocoena British Isles, Chilean Cephalorhynchus eutropia Patagonia, where showed juve- niles. Very large tattoos seen some adult SE Pacific, NE Portugal's Sado Estuary, which suggest impaired immune response. epidemiological an indicator cetacean population health.

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