Vibrissae growth rates and trophic discrimination factors in captive southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis)
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Novel Bartonella infection in northern and southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni and Enhydra lutris nereis).
Since 2002, vegetative valvular endocarditis (VVE), septicemia and meningoencephalitis have contributed to an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) of northern sea otters in southcentral Alaska. Streptococcal organisms were commonly isolated from vegetative lesions and organs from these sea otters. Bartonella infection has also been associated with bacteremia and VVE in terrestrial mammals, but little ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Mammalogy
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0022-2372,1545-1542
DOI: 10.1644/12-mamm-a-035.1