Fatal Toxoplasma gondii COUG strain infections in southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis): New insight on contributing factors and parasite serotyping

• Devinn M. Sinnott ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: dmsinnott@ucdavis.edu (DMS); kshapiro@ucdavis.edu (KS)

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7890-4833

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• Melissa Miller,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

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• David Arranz-Solís,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SALUVET, Animal Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-3194

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• Felipe Rodriguez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Jeroen P. J. Saeij,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Francesca Batac,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

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• Katherine Greenwald,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0918-2459

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• Colleen Young,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

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• Michael D. Harris,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

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• Mary Gomes,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

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• Karen Shapiro

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dmsinnott@ucdavis.edu (DMS); kshapiro@ucdavis.edu (KS)

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

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