Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a Gram‐positive, zoonotic bacterium with a broad host range, historically recognised as the causative agent of swine erysipelas and human erysipeloid. Its pathogenic ...

Last summer, some 190 dead porpoises washed ashore on the Dutch Wadden Sea Islands within just ten days. A remarkably high number, considering the annual average of about 600 stranded porpoises on the ...

In a recent article published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, researchers in the Netherlands described a mortality event that killed hundreds of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena), a ...

A "remarkably high" number of dead porpoises washed ashore last year Researchers tried to find the possible cause of death They found the bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in the porpoises' ...

A bacteria may be the culprit for the sharp decline of the muskox population in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, according to a team of researchers. The bacteria, erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, ...