Fatal necrotizing fasciitis and myositis in a captive common bottlenose dolphin

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Fatal necrotizing fasciitis and myositis in a captive common bottlenose dolphin
(Tursiops truncatus) associated with Streptococcus agalactiae


Abstract.
A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) was presented for necropsy after acute onset

of gastrointestinal signs and cutaneous lesions that rapidly progressed to death. Gross and microscopic findings
were characterized by locally extensive severe necrohemorrhagic fasciitis and cellulitis, and severe necrotizing
myositis in the head and dorsocranial thorax, with numerous disseminated gram-positive cocci.


Streptococcus

agalactiae


was isolated from the lesions and from visceral organs (liver and lung), and it was identified by

standard microbiology techniques. This communication is the first report of necrotizing fasciitis in a marine
mammal associated with


S. agalactiae.


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