Post-mortem investigations on a leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea stranded along the Northern Adriatic coastline

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-76

  Poppi, Lisa ^a   Zaccaroni, Annalisa ^b   Pasotto, Daniela ^a   Dotto, Giorgia ^a   Marcer, Federica ^a   Scaravelli, Dino ^b   Mazzariol, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adriatic Sea; Leatherback turtle; Marine debris; Photobacterium damselae ssp. piscicida

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL;

COASTAL ZONE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GASTROENTERITIS; HEAVY METAL; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PLASTIC; RARITY; TRACE ELEMENT; TURTLE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOBACTERIUM; TURTLE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METALS, HEAVY; PHOTOBACTERIUM; TURTLES; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DERMOCHELYIDAE; DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; PHOTOBACTERIUM DAMSELAE;

EID: 84866253325     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02479     Document Type: Article

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