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Seal finger
Seal finger, also known as sealer's finger and spekk-finger (from the Norwegian for "blubber"),〔(Seal Finger ), from ''Alaska Science Forum'' (article #335), by T. Neil Davis; published August 24, 1979; archived at the University of Alaska Fairbanks; retrieved August 18, 2011.〕 is an infection that afflicts the fingers of sealers and other people who handle pinnipeds, as a result of bites or contact with exposed seal bones; it has also been contracted by exposure to untreated seal pelts. It can cause cellulitis, debilitating joint inflammation, and edema of the bone marrow; untreated, the course of "seal finger" is slow and results often in thickened contracted joint.〔(Seal Finger - An enigma and a challenge ); State of Alaska Epidemiology Bulletin #17; published August 5, 1983; retrieved August 18, 2011.〕 Historically, seal finger was treated by amputation of the afflicted digits once they became unusable. It was first described scientifically in 1907.〔("Spekk-Finger" or Sealer's Finger ), by Kaare Rodahl, from ''Arctic'', vol. 5, no. 4 (December 1952), p. 235-240; archived at the University of Calgary; retrieved August 18, 2011〕
The precise nature of the organism responsible for seal finger is unknown, as it has resisted culturing because most cases are promptly treated with antibiotics;〔 however, as seal finger can be treated with tetracycline or similar antibiotics, the causative organism is most likely bacterial, or possibly fungal; in 1998, Baker, Ruoff, and Madoff showed that the organism is most likely a species of ''Mycoplasma'' called ''Mycoplasma phocacerebrale''. This ''Mycoplasma'' was isolated in an epidemic of seal disease occurring in the Baltic Sea. See also: Westley BP, Horazdovsky RD, Michaels DL, Brown DR.
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