According to the recommendations of the recent meeting of the CCAMLR Working Group on
Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (WG-EMM-99) a progress report on the plans for the
Russian contribution for the CCAMLR Synoptic Survey is given. A stratified survey design
for the operation by Russian RV "Atlantida" provides a broad area coverage in Subarea 48.4
and meso-scale coverage along the eastern and western sides of the South Sandwich
Islands. The detailed survey plan has been produced in compliance with the Synoptic
Survey Protocol. A short description of actions undertaken to the data is presented.
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Abstract:
This paper describes the first detection of Brucella sp. antibodies in pinnipeds from Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, South Shetlands, Antarctica. Sixteen Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) and one Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) sera were tested by the Rose Bengal test (RBT), complement fixation test (CFT), immunodiffusion (AGID) and c-ELISA.
Antibodies against Brucella sp. were detected with the RBT, the CFT and the c-ELISA in six of the seventeen samples involving the two animal species.
It is concluded that a Brucella sp. described as affecting marine mammals in the Northern hemisphere could be also present in the Antarctic territory.
