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Volume 29, Number 12—December 2023
Research

Molecular Detection and Characterization of Mycoplasma spp. in Marine Mammals, Brazil

Aricia Duarte-BenvenutoComments to Author , Carlos Sacristán, Ana Carolina Ewbank, Roberta Zamana-Ramblas, Henrique Christino Lial, Samira Costa Silva, Maria Alejandra Arias Lugo, Lara B. Keid, Caroline F. Pessi, José Rubens Sabbadini, Vanessa L. Ribeiro, Rodrigo del Rio do Valle, Carolina Pacheco Bertozzi, Adriana Castaldo Colosio, Hernani da Cunha Gomes Ramos, Angélica María Sánchez-Sarmiento, Raquel Beneton Ferioli, Larissa Pavanelli, Joana Midori Penalva Ikeda, Vitor L. Carvalho, Felipe Alexandre Catardo Gonçalves, Pablo Ibáñez-Porras, Irene Sacristán, and José Luiz Catão-Dias
Author affiliations: University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (A. Duarte-Benvenuto, A.C. Ewbank, R. Zamana-Ramblas, H.C. Lial, S.C. Silva, M.A.A. Lugo, L.B. Keid, J.L. Catão-Dias); Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal, Madrid, Spain (C. Sacristán, P. Ibáñez-Porras, I. Sacristán); Instituto de Pesquisas Cananéia, Cananéia, Brazil (C.F. Pessi, J.R. Sabbadini); Instituto Biopesca, Praia Grande, Brazil (V.L. Ribeiro, C.P. Bertozzi); Aiuká Consultoria Ambiental, Praia Grande (R. del Rio do Valle); Universidade Estadual Paulista, Campus do Litoral Paulista, São Vicente, Brazil (C.P. Bertozzi); Instituto Baleia Jubarte, Caravelas, Brazil (A. Castaldo Colosio, H. da Cunha Gomes Ramos); Instituto Argonauta para a Conservação Costeira e Marinha, Ubatuba, Brazil (A.M. Sánchez-Sarmiento, R. Beneton Ferioli); Instituto Mamíferos Aquáticos, Salvador, Brazil (L. Pavanelli, J.M. Penalva Ikeda); Associação de Pesquisa e Preservação de Ecossistemas Aquáticos, Caucaia, Brazil (V.L. Carvalho, F.A. Catardo Gonçalves)

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Table 1

Taxonomic and sex information on cetaceans in a study of molecular detection and characterization of Mycoplasma spp. in marine mammals, Brazil*

Cetacean scientific name Common name Sex
 Total No. (%) Mycoplasma-positive
F M
Balaenopteridae
Megaptera novaeangliae†
 Humpback whale
 0
 5
 6
 0
Delphinidae
Delphinus delphis Common dolphin 1 1 2 1 (50)
Feresa attenuata Pigmy killer whale 1 3 4 1 (25)
Globicephala macrorhynchus Short-finned pilot whale 2 0 2 0
Grampus griseus Risso’s dolphin 1 0 1 0
Lagenodelphis hosei Fraser’s dolphin 4 1 5 0
Orcinus orca Killer whale 1 0 1 1 (100)
Peponocephala electra Melon headed whale 1 9 10 0
Sotalia guianensis Guiana dolphin 13 11 24 3 (12.5)
Stenella clymene Clymene dolphin 1 2 3 0
Stenella coeruleoalba Striped dolphin 2 0 2 1 (50)
Stenella frontalis Atlantic spotted dolphin 4 3 7 2 (28.5)
Stenella longirostris Spinner dolphin 0 2 2 0
Steno bredanensis
 Rough-toothed dolphin
 1
 3
 4
 1 (25)
Kogiidae
Kogia breviceps Pigmy sperm whale 1 3 4 3 (75)
Kogia sima
 Dwarf sperm whale
 4
 6
 10
 2 (20)
Physeteridae
Physeter macrocephalus
 Sperm whale
 1
 0
 1
 0
Pontoporiidae
Pontoporia blainvillei
 Franciscana dolphin
 21
 21
 42
 3 (7.1)
Total 59 70 130 18

*Mammals were stranded or caught along the coast of Brazil during 2011–2022. †One animal’s sex was not determined.

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