COCCIDIOSIS IN THE GREEN TURTLE IN MARICULTURE (Chelonia mydas)

Autor: Arkadi M. Rywlin, Gerbert Rebell, Glen Ulrich
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the annual meeting - World Mariculture Society. 5:197-204
ISSN: 0164-0399
Popis: An epidemic of disease in recently hatched green turtles (Chelonia mydas) was found to be associated with a new coccidial intestinal parasite. The disease and associated mortality appeared in young turtles approximately 30 days after hatching, and ran a 60 day course through the stock hatchlings at the farm. Symptoms of the disease were emaciation and lethargy. Tube-like casts of intestinal mucosa and impaction of the gut with caseous masses of oocysts occured late in the disease. Active patches of coccidial infection were found in the intestinal tract of surviving and apparently healthy turtles as late as 1 month after the end of the epidemic.
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