An outbreak of chlamydiosis in farmed Indopacific crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) : clinical communication
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An outbreak of chlamydiosis in farmed Indopacific crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus).
An outbreak of chlamydiosis was diagnosed in hatchling and juvenile Indopacific crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) on a crocodile farm in Papua New Guinea. The outbreak was characterised by high mortality with hepatitis and exudative conjunctivitis. The agent appears to have been introduced with live wild-caught crocodiles, which are purchased routinely by the farm. Improved quarantine procedures ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
سال: 2008
ISSN: 2224-9435,1019-9128
DOI: 10.4102/jsava.v79i2.253