Soft plastron, soft carapace with skeletal abnormality in juvenile tortoises: Histopathology and isolation of a novel picornavirus from Testudo graeca and Geochelone elegans

Tierarztliche Praxis Ausgabe K: Kleintiere - Heimtiere

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 310-320

  Heuser, W ^a   Pendl, H ^b   Knowles, N J ^b   Keil, G ^c   Herbst, W ^a   Lierz, M ^a   Kaleta, Erhard F ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nephropathy; Osteodystrophy; Virus infection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL SHELL; BONE; BONE DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PICORNAVIRIDAE; PICORNAVIRUS INFECTION; TURTLE; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DISEASES; KIDNEY DISEASES; PICORNAVIRIDAE; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; TURTLES;

EID: 84908486342     PISSN: 14341239     EISSN: 25675842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1623777     Document Type: Article

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