- Animal common names
- Northern elephant seal
- Family
- Mammalia
- Animal genus and species
- Mirounga angustirostris
- Serovar
- Pomona
- Serogroup
- Pomona
- Species
- L.interrogans
- Presumptive species
- L.interrogans
- Country names
- United States
- Other location data
- California
- Year
- 2011
- Specimen type
- Kidney, Urine
- Detection method
- Culture
- Determining method
- Variable Number Tandem Repeats (VNTR), Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE)
- Number of animals with id isolates
- 2
- Animal age class
- Juvenile
- Animal health
- Died due to leptospirosis
Citation
Delaney MA, Colegrove KM, Spraker TR, Zuerner RL, Galloway RL, Gulland FM, 2014. Isolation of Leptospira from a phocid: acute renal failure and mortality from Leptospirosis in rehabilitated northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris), California, USA. J Wildl Dis 50: 621-7.
