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This image, captured on October 9, 1974, shows a close right lateral view of the head and lower jaw of a common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, that inhabited waters off the coast of St. Petersburg, Florida. The image highlights a cutaneous lesion on the animal’s lower jaw that was diagnosed as lobomycosis, an infection associated with the fungal organism Lacazia loboi.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Dr. Libero Ajello
Creation Date: 1974
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