Esophageal diverticulum associated with Aerococcus viridans infection in a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 221-223

  Torrent, Ayose ^a   Déniz, Soraya ^a   Ruiz, Antonio ^a   Calabuig, Pascual ^b   Sicilia, Javier ^a   Orós, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b Ctr of Rehabilitation of Wild Fauna   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aerococcus viridans; Caretta caretta; Case report; Esophageal diverticulum; Loggerhead sea turtle

Indexed keywords

AEROCOCCUS; AEROCOCCUS VIRIDANS; CARETTA CARETTA; CEPHALOPODA; CHELONIIDAE; CRUSTACEA; LOBSTER; PISCES; TESTUDINES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; DIVERTICULITIS; ESOPHAGUS DIVERTICULOSIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCACEAE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULUM, ESOPHAGEAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCACEAE; TURTLES;

EID: 0038897175     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-38.1.221     Document Type: Article

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