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Research interests:My research interests involve the investigations of emerging diseases in marine mammals and birds from veterinary clinical, pathologic and immunologic perspectives. Specifically, our laboratory is investigating emerging (and resurging) neoplastic, infectious and toxic diseases (anthropogenic and harmful algal bloom biotoxin-related) of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins, whales and manatees. In the past 5 years we have documented novel orogenital neoplasia and cutaneous fungal disease in dolphins through a dolphin health assessment program in Florida and South Carolina. Novel viral diseases documented by this research include dolphin and manatee papillomaviruses and gammaherpesvirus-associated neoplastic disease. We are using marine mammals as sentinels for oceans and human health.
Publications
Bossart GD, Baden DG, Ewing RY and Wright SD. 2001. Manatees and brevetoxicosis. In: Pfeiffer C (ed.), Molecular and Cell Biology of Marine Mammals, Krieger Publishing Co., Melbourne, FL.
Bossart GD, Decker SJ and Ewiing RY. 2001. Cytopathology of cutaneous viral papillomatosis in the killer whale (Orcinus orca). In: Pfeiffer C (ed.), Molecular and Cell Biology of Marine Mammals, Krieger Publishing Co. Melbourne, FL.
Miller DL, Ewing R, and Bossart GD. 2001. Emerging and Resurging Diseases of Marine Mammals. In: Dierauf L and Gulland F (eds.). Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine: Health. Disease and Rehabilitation. CRC Press. Boca Raton. FL.
Bossart GD, 2001. Sirenian Medicine. In: Dierauf L and Gulland F (eds.). HandbooK of Marine Mammal Medicine: Health, Disease and Rehabilitation. 2nd edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton. FL.
Bossart GD, Reiderson, T and Dierauf L. 2000. Marine Mammal Clinical Laboratory Medicine. In: Dierauf L and Gulland F (eds.). Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine: Health. Disease and Rehabilitation. CRC Press. Boca Raton. FL.
Rotstein DS, Taylor SK, Bossart GD and Miller D. 2000. Dissecting thoracoabdominal aneurysm in a free-ranging Florida panther (Felis concolor coryi). J Zoo Wildlife Med 31:159-161
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