Fish & Wildlife Disease: Reptile Disease
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By Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program
September 29, 2022
Disease causing pathogens are of concern to human and wildlife health and are frequently the number one reported impairment for water resources in the United States.
Reptile Disease
Reptile Disease
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The potential role of natural tumor promoters in marine turtle fibropapillomatosis
Fibropapillomatosis (FP) in green turtles Chelonia mydas is a debilitating, neoplastic disease that has reached worldwide epizootic levels. The etiology of FP is unknown but has been linked to oncogenic viruses. Toxic benthic dinoflagellates (Prorocentrum spp.) are not typically considered tumorigenic agents, yet they have a worldwide distribution and produce a tumor promoter, okadaic acid (OA). P
Authors
Jan H. Landsberg, G.H. Balazs, K.A. Steidinger, D.G. Baden, Thierry M. Work, D.J. Russel
Pathology of diseases in wild desert tortoises from California
Twenty-four ill or dead desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) were received between March 1992 and July 1995 for necropsies from the Mojave and Colorado deserts of California (USA). Diseases observed in these animals included cutaneous dyskeratosis (n = 7); shell necrosis (n = 2); respiratory diseases (n = 7); urolithiasis (n = 3); and trauma (n = 5). In tortoises with cutaneous dyskeratosis the h
Authors
B.L. Homer, K.H. Berry, Mary E. Brown, G. Ellis, E.R. Jacobson
Three closely related herpesviruses are associated with fibropapillomatosis in marine turtles
Green turtle fibropapillomatosis is a neoplastic disease of increasingly significant threat to the survivability of this species. Degenerate PCR primers that target highly conserved regions of genes encoding herpesvirus DNA polymerases were used to amplify a DNA sequence from fibropapillomas and fibromas from Hawaiian and Florida green turtles. All of the tumors tested (n= 23) were found to harbor
Authors
S.L. Quackenbush, Thierry M. Work, George H. Balazs, Rufina N. Casey, J. Rovnak, A. Chaves, L. duToit, J.D. Baines, C.R. Parrish, Paul R. Bowser, James W. Casey
Cutaneous dyskeratosis in free-ranging desert tortoises, Gopherus agassizii, in the Colorado Desert of Southern California
No abstract available.
Authors
E.R. Jacobson, T.J. Wronski, J. Schumacher, C. Reggiardo, K.H. Berry
Disease causing pathogens are of concern to human and wildlife health and are frequently the number one reported impairment for water resources in the United States.
Reptile Disease
Reptile Disease
Explore our science using the data below.
Explore our science using the publications below.
Filter Total Items: 64
The potential role of natural tumor promoters in marine turtle fibropapillomatosis
Fibropapillomatosis (FP) in green turtles Chelonia mydas is a debilitating, neoplastic disease that has reached worldwide epizootic levels. The etiology of FP is unknown but has been linked to oncogenic viruses. Toxic benthic dinoflagellates (Prorocentrum spp.) are not typically considered tumorigenic agents, yet they have a worldwide distribution and produce a tumor promoter, okadaic acid (OA). P
Authors
Jan H. Landsberg, G.H. Balazs, K.A. Steidinger, D.G. Baden, Thierry M. Work, D.J. Russel
Pathology of diseases in wild desert tortoises from California
Twenty-four ill or dead desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) were received between March 1992 and July 1995 for necropsies from the Mojave and Colorado deserts of California (USA). Diseases observed in these animals included cutaneous dyskeratosis (n = 7); shell necrosis (n = 2); respiratory diseases (n = 7); urolithiasis (n = 3); and trauma (n = 5). In tortoises with cutaneous dyskeratosis the h
Authors
B.L. Homer, K.H. Berry, Mary E. Brown, G. Ellis, E.R. Jacobson
Three closely related herpesviruses are associated with fibropapillomatosis in marine turtles
Green turtle fibropapillomatosis is a neoplastic disease of increasingly significant threat to the survivability of this species. Degenerate PCR primers that target highly conserved regions of genes encoding herpesvirus DNA polymerases were used to amplify a DNA sequence from fibropapillomas and fibromas from Hawaiian and Florida green turtles. All of the tumors tested (n= 23) were found to harbor
Authors
S.L. Quackenbush, Thierry M. Work, George H. Balazs, Rufina N. Casey, J. Rovnak, A. Chaves, L. duToit, J.D. Baines, C.R. Parrish, Paul R. Bowser, James W. Casey
Cutaneous dyskeratosis in free-ranging desert tortoises, Gopherus agassizii, in the Colorado Desert of Southern California
No abstract available.
Authors
E.R. Jacobson, T.J. Wronski, J. Schumacher, C. Reggiardo, K.H. Berry