Hirzmann, Jörg
Ebmer, David
Sánchez-Contreras, Guillermo J.
Rubio-García, Ana
Magdowski, Gerd
Gärtner, Ulrich
Taubert, Anja
Hermosilla, Carlos
Funding for this research was provided by:
Projekt DEAL
Article History
Received: 23 July 2020
Accepted: 7 January 2021
First Online: 5 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All parasite specimens analyzed in the current study (<i>E. horridus</i> and adult<i> A. spirocauda</i> individuals) were exclusively provided by the Sealcentre Pieterburen, The Netherlands, sampled from free-ranging harbour and grey seals during a rehabilitation period or necropsies. Seal sampling procedures were conducted in strict accordance to the permission of the government of The Netherlands (valid permission ID at time of study: FF/75/2012/015), which approves admission and rehabilitation of free-ranging seals at the Sealcentre Pieterburen as well as collection of dead seals. In the present study, a non-invasive lice sample-taking process (using lice combs) was conducted during routine veterinary diagnostics and therapy to minimise additional stress factors and sampling duration. No seals were euthanized for research purposes. All samples of the present study were exclusively taken on territory of The Netherlands. The Sealcentre Pieterburen granted permission to the Institute of Parasitology (Justus Liebig University Giessen) for further analyses of parasite samples to perform the present study.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.