| Literature DB >> 18600789 |
Xiao-Liang Li1, Chu-Long Zhang, Wei-Huan Fang, Fu-Cheng Lin.
Abstract
Chinese soft-shelled turtles (Trionyx sinens) in culture farms using an artificial warming system in Zhejiang, China, often show typical signs of white-spot disease such as white spots on their bodies, skin lesions, anorexia and eventually death. The sick turtles were mostly 5~80 g in weight. A suspected fungal pathogen was isolated from the sick turtles and verified as Paecilomyces lilacinus by sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of its ribosomal DNA (rDNA). Detailed morphological examinations were also conducted to confirm the white-spot disease.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18600789 PMCID: PMC2443355 DOI: 10.1631/jzus.B0720009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Zhejiang Univ Sci B ISSN: 1673-1581 Impact factor: 3.066