Seroprevalence of in Pinnipeds under Human Care and in Wild Pinnipeds.

infection has been reported in numerous species of marine mammals, some of them with fatal consequences. A serosurvey for infection was conducted in pinnipeds from an oceanographic park in Portugal ( = 60); stranded pinnipeds on the Portuguese coast ( = 10); and pinnipeds captured in Lorenzensplate, Germany ( = 99). Sera from 169 pinnipeds were tested for the presence of antibodies to by the modified agglutination test with a cut-off titre of 25.