The First Report of Disease in a Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus)

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 284-288

  Dagleish, M P ^a   Baily, J L ^b   Foster, G ^c   Reid, R J ^c   Barley, J ^c  

^a MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basking shark; Elasmobranch; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CETORHINUS MAXIMUS; DERMATITIS; EDEMA; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGRANULOMATOUS MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; SHARK; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; FISH DISEASE; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CETORHININAE; CETORHINUS MAXIMUS; CHONDRICHTHYES;

ANIMALS; EDEMA; FISH DISEASES; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MYOCARDITIS; NECROSIS; SCOTLAND; SHARKS;

EID: 79952457155     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: 15323129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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