Journal of wildlife diseases
Novel Gastric Helicobacter Species in Stranded Pygmy Sperm Whales (Kogia breviceps) on the East Coast of Florida, USA.
Wendy Marks, Jessy Castellanos-Gell, Steven B Tillis, Nicole Pegg, David Rotstein, Sushan Han, James F X Wellehan, April Childress, Steve Burton, Annie Page
Published: 202510.7589/JWD-D-24-00204
Abstract
Gastric spirilliform bacteria consistent with Helicobacter spp. were identified in four pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) that stranded along the east coast of Florida, USA, during 2017-20. A total of six of nine (67%) stomach samples from PCR-pos…
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