Journal article

Publication year: 2006

Pages: 134-142

Journal: Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volume number: 134

Issue number: 2-3

ISSN: 0021-9975

eISSN: 1532-3129

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpa.2005.09.002

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
A study of 37 by-caught harbour porpoises from Icelandic and Norwegian waters showed that most were in good or moderate nutritional condition and none was severely emaciated. Mild infection with lungworms (Halocercus invaginatus, Pseudalius inflexus, Torynurnus convolutus) was found in 84% of the Icelandic and 91% of the Norwegian animals, usually associated with bronchopneumonia which was rarely severe. Most (91%) of the animals had parasites in the stomach and intestine (Anisakis simplex, Contracaecum osculatum, Pholeter gastrophilus), and Campula oblonga was present in the liver and pancreas of 88 and 21 %, respectively. Oesophagitis, gastritis, cholangifis, pericholangitis, pancreatitis and lymphadenitis were almost exclusively associated with parasitic infection and usually mild. Bacterialisolates were obtained from 50 to 55% of the animals but were not considered to be clinically significant. There was no indication of morbillivirus infection. Icelandic and Norwegian animals showed a thicker blubber layer and a lower incidence of severe lesions, especially in the respiratory tract, as compared with reports of by-caught animals from the Baltic Sea. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Harvard Citation style: Siebert, U., Tolley, K., Víkingsson, G., Olafsdottir, D., Lehnert, K., Weiss, R., et al. (2006) Pathological findings in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from Norwegian and Icelandic waters, Journal of Comparative Pathology, 134(2-3), pp. 134-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpa.2005.09.002

APA Citation style: Siebert, U., Tolley, K., Víkingsson, G., Olafsdottir, D., Lehnert, K., Weiss, R., & Baumgärtner, W. (2006). Pathological findings in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from Norwegian and Icelandic waters. Journal of Comparative Pathology. 134(2-3), 134-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpa.2005.09.002