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Sci."],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Introduction<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Whales, dolphins, and porpoises are susceptible to infections by protozoan and metazoan parasites.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      In this study, tissue samples, as well as flatworms and roundworms, were collected from a common bottlenose dolphin (\n                      <jats:italic>Tursiops truncatus<\/jats:italic>\n                      ), three short-beaked common dolphins (\n                      <jats:italic>Delphinus delphis<\/jats:italic>\n                      ), two striped dolphins (\n                      <jats:italic>Stenella coeruleoalba<\/jats:italic>\n                      ), a harbor porpoise (\n                      <jats:italic>Phocoena phocoena<\/jats:italic>\n                      ), a long-finned pilot whale (\n                      <jats:italic>Globicephala melas<\/jats:italic>\n                      ), and a fin whale (\n                      <jats:italic>Balaenoptera physalus<\/jats:italic>\n                      ). These samples were molecularly analyzed.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      In one\n                      <jats:italic>D. delphis, Toxoplasma gondii<\/jats:italic>\n                      was detected in multiple organs, including the cerebellum. The cysts of the tapeworms\n                      <jats:italic>Clistobothrium delphini<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>Clistobothrium grimaldii<\/jats:italic>\n                      were identified in\n                      <jats:italic>G. melas<\/jats:italic>\n                      . Flukes collected from\n                      <jats:italic>D. delphis<\/jats:italic>\n                      belong to\n                      <jats:italic>Brachycladium atlanticum<\/jats:italic>\n                      , while those removed from\n                      <jats:italic>S. coeruleoalba<\/jats:italic>\n                      probably represent a new species. Four species of lungworms were also identified:\n                      <jats:italic>Halocercus delphini<\/jats:italic>\n                      in\n                      <jats:italic>S. coeruleoalba<\/jats:italic>\n                      ,\n                      <jats:italic>Halocercus<\/jats:italic>\n                      sp. in\n                      <jats:italic>T. truncatus<\/jats:italic>\n                      ,\n                      <jats:italic>Stenurus globicephalae<\/jats:italic>\n                      in\n                      <jats:italic>G. melas<\/jats:italic>\n                      , and a potentially new\n                      <jats:italic>Pharurus<\/jats:italic>\n                      sp. in\n                      <jats:italic>P. phocoena<\/jats:italic>\n                      .\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      These findings show, to the best of our knowledge, for the first time, the presence of\n                      <jats:italic>T. gondii<\/jats:italic>\n                      DNA in\n                      <jats:italic>D. delphis<\/jats:italic>\n                      . The cerebellum of the animal was\n                      <jats:italic>Toxoplasma<\/jats:italic>\n                      -infected, which might be relevant to inadvertent stranding. 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