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Caryospora-Like Coccidia Infecting Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas): An Emerging Disease With Evidence of Interoceanic Dissemination

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0 Published in 2019 at "Frontiers in Veterinary Science"

DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2019.00372

Abstract: Protozoa morphologically consistent with Caryospora sp. are one of the few pathogens associated with episodic mass mortality events involving free-ranging sea turtles. Parasitism of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) by these coccidia and associated mortality was… read more here.

Keywords: caryospora like; green turtles; turtles chelonia; chelonia mydas ... See more keywords