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Vibrio damsela infection in a stranded leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
D L Obendorf1, J Carson, T J McManus
1Tasmanian Department of Agriculture, Mt. Pleasant Laboratories, Australia.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
Necropsy of a stranded adult leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) determined that the animal died as a result of valvular endocarditis and septicemia. Vibrio damsela was isolated from the endocardial thrombus. The route of entry for infection probably was through the gastrointestinal tract.