Title
Viral and bacterial serology of six free-ranging bearded seals Erignathus barbatus
Author(s)
Calle, P.P.; Seagars, D.J.; McClave, C.; Senne, D.; House, C.; House, J.A.
Published
2008
Publisher
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
Abstract
Serum or heparinized plasma samples were obtained from 3 male (2 adult and 1 weaned calf) and 3 adult female free-ranging bearded seals Erignathus barbatus in May of 1994, 1995, or 1996. Blood samples were obtained from animals taken in subsistence hunts near St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and screened for antibodies to a suite of bacteria and viruses potentially pathogenic for pinnipeds and/or humans. No samples had detectable antibodies to Brucella spp., Phocine distemper virus, influenza A virus or caliciviruses (San Miguel sea lion virus strains 1, 2, and 4 to 13, vesicular exanthema of swine serotypes A48, B51, C52, D53, E54, F55, G55, H54, I55, J56, K54, 1934B, and Tillamook and Walrus calicivirus). One seal had a low titer of 100 to Leptospira interrogans serovar grippotyphosa. © Inter-Research 2008.
Keywords
bacterium antibody; virus antibody; antibody; bacterial disease; pathogen; pig; pinniped; viral disease; animal; article; bacterium; blood; classification; female; immunology; male; Pacific Ocean; Phoca; virus; Animals; Antibodies, Bacterial; Antibodies, Viral; Bacteria; Seals, Earless; Viruses; Alaska; Bering Sea; North America; Pacific Ocean; Saint Lawrence Island; United States; Animalia; Bacteria (microorganisms); Brucella; Caliciviridae; Canine distemper virus; Erignathus; Erignathus barbatus; Influenza A virus; Influenzavirus A; Leptospira interrogans; Leptospira interrogans serovar Grippotyphosa; Phocine distemper virus; Pinnipedia; San Miguel sea lion virus; Suidae; Walrus calicivirus; Bearded seal; Calicivirus; Northern bering sea
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