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- Title
Tsunami-Driven Spread of Toxoplasma gondii and Other Microbial Pathogens: Implications for Cetacean Health and Conservation.
- Authors
Di Guardo, Giovanni
- Abstract
Interestingly enough, the aforementioned phenomenon could also involve microbial pathogens, a number of which are known to impact the health and conservation status of free-living cetaceans [[2]]. Despite the marine mammal scientific community's general consensus on a "land-to-sea transfer" as the most biologically plausible mechanism through which I T. gondii i oocysts may gain access to the sea environment, similarly to other oro-fecally transmitted pathogens [[2]], this assumption becomes questionable when dealing with striped dolphins and other I T. gondii i -susceptible cetacean hosts living in the open sea [[6]]. I T. gondii i , an opportunistic pathogen commonly found in I Dolphin Morbillivirus i -infected striped dolphins [[4]], may also behave as a primary neurotropic agent, thereby causing severe, multifocal, non-suppurative encephalitis lesions, with affected striped dolphins dying in the open sea or otherwise getting stranded alive or lifeless [[5]].
- Subjects
DOLPHINS; TOXOPLASMA gondii; CETACEA; STRIPED dolphin; MARINE biology; PATHOGENIC microorganisms; MARINE mammals
- Publication
Pathogens, 2023, Vol 12, Issue 4, p616
- ISSN
2076-0817
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/pathogens12040616