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Autor:
Lena N. Measures, Ron A. M. Fouchier
Publikováno v:
Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 57(4), 808-819. Wildlife Disease Association, Inc.
Influenza viruses have been reported from marine mammals worldwide, particularly in pinnipeds, and have caused mass mortalities of seals in North America and Europe. Because influenza viruses in marine mammals can be zoonotic, our objective was to ex
Publikováno v:
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 130:165-175
The St. Lawrence Estuary (SLE) beluga Delphinapterus leucas in Quebec, Canada, is endangered due to intensive hunting in the 19th and 20th centuries and subsequent anthropogenic contamination and human activities in the region. Infectious disease is
Publikováno v:
Food and Waterborne Parasitology, Vol 17, Iss, Pp-(2019)
Food and Waterborne Parasitology
Food and Waterborne Parasitology
Zoonotic parasites of seals that are harvested for food may pose a health risk when seal meat or organ tissues of infected animals are eaten raw or undercooked. In this study, 124 tissue samples from 81 seals, comprising four species, were collected
Autor:
Christian Sonne, Emilie Andersen-Ranberg, Lena N. Measures, Steen Andersen, Rune Dietz, Kristina Lehnert, Ursula Siebert, Pall S. Leifsson
Publikováno v:
Andersen-Ranberg, E U, Lehnert, K, Leifsson, P S, Dietz, R, Andersen, S, Siebert, U, Measures, L & Sonne, C 2018, ' Morphometric, molecular and histopathologic description of hepatic infection by Orthosplanchnus arcticus (Trematoda: Digenea: Brachycladiidae) in ringed seals ( Pusa hispida ) from Northwest Greenland ', Polar Biology, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 1019-1025 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2245-6
For the first time in > 30 years of routine sampling under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, a parasite was found in the liver of ringed seals (Phoca hispida) collected near Qaanaaq (Thule), Northwest Greenland, in 2008 and 2014. Concerns
Publikováno v:
Canadian Journal of Zoology. 95:345-352
Philometra rubra (Leidy, 1856) is a pathogenic parasitic nematode infecting striped bass (Morone saxatilis (Walbaum, 1792)) in eastern North America. Identification of philometrids is difficult, male P. rubra have never been found, and transmission i
Publikováno v:
Veterinary Pathology. 53:22-36
An isolated population of beluga ( Delphinapterus leucas) inhabits the St Lawrence Estuary, Quebec, Canada. This population has failed to recover despite the prohibition of hunting >30 years ago, suggesting the presence of other limiting factors. The
Autor:
Kathleen A. Burek-Huntington, Caroline E. C. Goertz, Lena N Measures, Stephen Raverty, Jennifer L Dushane, Carlos H. Romero
Publikováno v:
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 114:45-60
The endangered Cook Inlet (Alaska, USA) stock of beluga whales Delphinapterus leucas declined 47% between 1994 and 1998, from an estimated 653 whales to 347 whales, with a continued decline to approximately 312 in 2012. Between 1998 and 2013, 164 kno
Publikováno v:
Science of The Total Environment. :377-386
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were measured in blubber from 144 stranded adult belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) found on the shores of the St. Lawrence Estuary (SLE) between 1987 and 2007. Temporal trends of POP concentrations (ln transformed)
Autor:
Carl A. Gagnon, Lena N. Measures, Tracey Goldstein, Christian Bellehumeur, Ole Nielsen, Lois A. Harwood, Brian Boyle
Publikováno v:
Journal of wildlife diseases. 52(1)
Little is known about herpesviruses in Canadian pinnipeds. We measured prevalence of antibodies to herpesviruses in the sera from Canadian phocid seals by an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Wild harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and captive h
Publikováno v:
Aquatic Mammals. 36:365-371
This study investigated in vitro the effects of methylmercury chloride (CH3HgCl), zinc chloride (ZnCl2), cadmium chloride (CdCl2), lead acetate (Pb(C2H3O2)2), and PCBs (Aroclor mixtures) on the proliferation of T lymphocytes from the thymus, lymph no