Moser M, Rhinehart H
Long Marine Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz 95060.
J Wildl Dis. 1993 Jul;29(3):507-8. doi: 10.7589/0090-3558-29.3.507.
Three cetaceans from Monterey Bay, California (USA), were infected with lung nematodes. A beaked whale calf, Mesoplodon sp. was infected with adult Halocercus sp. This represents a new host record for this nematode. The lungs of a northern right whale dolphin calf, Lissodelphis borealis, contained an unidentified nematode similar in size to Halocercus sp. The presence of Phyllobothrium delphini-type cestode larvae in its blubber is evidence that the calf was feeding on invertebrates. A pregnant harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena was infected with the lung nematode H. invaginatus, but the fetus was uninfected. We found no direct evidence of a transplacental mode of transmission for Halocercus sp.
来自美国加利福尼亚州蒙特雷湾的三头鲸类动物感染了肺线虫。一头喙鲸幼崽，中喙鲸属物种，感染了成年的海兽胃线虫属物种。这代表了这种线虫的一个新宿主记录。一头北露脊海豚幼崽，北露脊海豚的肺中含有一种大小与海兽胃线虫属物种相似的未鉴定线虫。其鲸脂中存在德尔菲叶槽绦虫型绦虫幼虫，证明这头幼崽以无脊椎动物为食。一只怀孕的港湾鼠海豚，鼠海豚感染了肺线虫内褶海兽胃线虫，但胎儿未被感染。我们没有发现海兽胃线虫属物种经胎盘传播方式的直接证据。
