Session V: Infectious Diseases

A Survey of Protozoa Infecting Threatened Poison-Arrow Frogs from Costa Rica Poison-arrow Frogs
Sarah L. Poynton, BSc, PhD

Acute Streptococcal Septicemia in a Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum)Streptococcal Septicemia
William H. Carr, BS

Communication of Nervous and Immune Systems in the Beluga, Delphinapterus leucas Nervous and Immune Systems
Tracy A. Romano, BS, PhD

Diagnosis of Leptospirosis infection in California sea lions (Zalohus californianus) via bacteriologic, immunologic and histopathologic techniques Leptospirosis Infection
Alex Hewitt, Marilyn Koski

Digenetic Trematode Pholeter gastrophilus and Its Possible Role in the Death of a Captive Killer Whale Digenetic Trematode
Murray D. Dailey, PhD

Distemper Infection on Baikal Deal (Pusa sibirica) in Captivity Distemper Infection
Hajime Ishikawa, DVM

Evaluation of Complement Activity in the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus)Complement Activity
Eva Stumpff

General Survey of Research in Diseases of Cultured Aquatic Organisms in China Cultured Aquatic Organisms
Pan Jin-pei

Papillomatosis Case in an (Orcinus Orca)Papillomatosis Case
Jose Luis Solorzano Velasco

Platelet Function Testing in Killer Whales Platelet Function Testing
Wayne R. Patterson, PhD

Poxvirus Infection in a Killer Whale: Clinical Signs and Diagnosis Poxvirus Infection
Samuel R. Dover, DVM

Tuberculosis/Mycobacteriosis in Pinnipeds Tuberculosis/Mycobacteriosis
D. J. Needham