Endocarditis associated with Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica in a short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis)

J Wildl Dis. 2015 Jan;51(1):283-6. doi: 10.7589/2014-03-072.

Abstract

Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica is a rare cause of fatal septicemia in humans, and recently reported in a white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). We describe fatal septicemia associated with W. chitiniclastica in a short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) with fibrinosuppurative and necrotizing pulmonic, aortic, and mitral valve endocarditis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Common Dolphins
  • Endocarditis, Bacterial / microbiology
  • Endocarditis, Bacterial / veterinary*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Gammaproteobacteria / isolation & purification*
  • Male
  • Myocardium / pathology
  • Sepsis / microbiology
  • Sepsis / pathology
  • Sepsis / veterinary*