Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the publication of our article about paracoccidioidomycosis ceti in an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) from Brazil.

Sacristán, C., Esperón, E., Ewbank, A.C., Kolesnikovas, C.K.M., Catão-Dias, J.L. (2017). Paracoccidioidomycosis ceti in an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), Brazil. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, doi: 10.1111/tbed.12781

In this manuscript we diagnosed paracoccidioidomycosis ceti (former lacaziosis-like disease) in a wild Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) from Brazil, a country with human paracoccidiodomycosis reports. We molecularly identified Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, instead of Lacazia loboi, as the etiological agent. To the authors’ knowledge this work constitutes the first detection of the paracoccidiodomycosis etiological agent in South American cetaceans, confirming the etiology of the disease.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tbed.12781/full

Articles available at link above or email: carlosvet.sac@gmail.com

Best regards

Carlos Sacristán