In a recent article published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, researchers in the Netherlands described a mortality event that killed hundreds of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena), a ...
A "remarkably high" number of dead porpoises washed ashore last year Researchers tried to find the possible cause of death They found the bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in the porpoises' ...
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a gram-positive, facultative anaerobic bacillus of global veterinary and human significance. It causes erysipelas in livestock, aquaculture species and wildlife, and ...