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This image, captured on October 9, 1974, shows a close view of the skin surface of a common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, that inhabited waters off the coast of St. Petersburg, Florida. The image highlights the morphology of a cutaneous lesion diagnosed as lobomycosis, an infection associated with the fungal organism Lacazia loboi. Note that this is the region from which a biopsy specimen was collected.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Dr. Libero Ajello
Creation Date: 1974
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