Elliott, Heather

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Elliott, Heather; Thomas, Annette; Ladds, P. W.; Heinsohn, George Edwin (detail)
1981A fatal case of salmonellosis in a dugong.
Jour. Wildl. Diseases 17(2): 203-208. 3 figs. Apr. 1981.
—Describes the captive conditions, illness, and histopathology of the small intestine and liver of a female dugong calf that died at the Cairns Oceanarium, Australia, in 1978. Pseudomonas, Streptococcus, and Salmonella lohbruegge were isolated, with death ascribed to the latter.