title: A case of stranded Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) with lobomycosis-like skin lesions in Kinko-wan, Kagoshima, Japan.
abstract: Lobomycosis is a chronic fungal disease caused by the etiologic agent, Lacazia loboi, in the skin and subcutaneous tissues in humans and dolphins in tropical and transitional tropical climates. An Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) stranded in Kagoshima, Japan, had severe skin lesions characterized by granulomatous reactions and hyperkeratosis that were similar to those of the lobomycosis, but no fungal organism was observed in the skin lesion. In this paper, we report a stranded Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin with lobomycosis-like lesions based on pathological examinations in Japan.
authors: Division of Vertebrate, Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan.
authors: Yuko
authors: Y
authors: Tajima
authors: Kyoko
authors: K
authors: Sasaki
authors: Nobuyuki
authors: N
authors: Kashiwagi
authors: Tadasu K
authors: TK
authors: Yamada
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D050681:Bottle-Nosed Dolphin / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000382:microbiology*; D007564:Japan; D060368:Lobomycosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D012867:Skin / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology