Digestive pathology of sea turtles stranded in the Canary Islands between 1993 and 2001

Veterinary Record

Volumn 155, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 169-174

  Oros J ^a   Calabuig, P ^b   Deniz S ^a  

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

^b Tafira Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANISAKIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CITROBACTER; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTERITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRANULOMATOUS HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INGESTION; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MOUTH ULCER; NECROTIZING ENTERITIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA; PROTEUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STOMATITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TURTLE; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMALIA; ANISAKIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; CITROBACTER; DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYDAS; NEGIBACTERIA; NEMATODA; PASTEURELLA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TESTUDINES; VIBRIO; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

EID: 4444250404     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.155.6.169     Document Type: Article

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