Demosthenes Pappagianis Lynn H. Creekmore Ruth M. Duncan Nancy J. Thomas 1994 <p>Disseminated coccidioidomycosis was diagnosed postmortem in six southern sea otters (<i>Enhydra lutris nereis</i>) found dying or dead along the Pacific Coast of California at San Luis Obispo County. &nbsp;These otters were found during winter or summer 1992, 1993, and 1994. &nbsp;<i>Coccidioides immitis</i> was identified by its morphology in tissue impression smears and by histopathology, and was confirmed by culture. &nbsp;Positive serologic results were obtained from four of five sea otters tested. &nbsp;The lungs, pleura, tracheobronchial lymph nodes, liver, and spleen were involved in each case. &nbsp;There was meningeal involvement in half of the affected animals. &nbsp;Coccidioidomycosis has been reported in a wild sea otter only once previously, in 1976, and that otter was also found on the coast of San Luis Obispo County.</p> application/pdf en National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Coccidioidomycosis in southern sea otters text