Lobo's disease in an atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin
Migaki, G.; Valerio, M.G.; Irvine, B.; Garner, F.M.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 159(5): 578-582
1971
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488 PMID: 5106378 Document Number: 35720
Lobo's disease (previously only reported in man in Brazil, Surinam and Costa Rica) was diagnosed histologically in the skin of the tail stock and flukes of a feral Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) found in a bay on the west coast of Florida. The cutaneous lesions appeared as extensive white crusts. There were large, discrete, histiocytic granulomas in the dermis, resulting in severe acanthosis. The causative mycotic organism, Loboa loboi, was readily demonstrated in the granulomas with Gridley fungus stain or with periodic acid-Schiff techniques.