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SUBMITTER: de Mello DMD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7003234 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Mello Daniela M D DMD Alvarez Maria C L MCL
Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc 20191217 1
We assessed the health status and hematologic and blood chemistry values of 48 juvenile green turtles (<i>Chelonia mydas</i>) on the southeastern coast of Brazil (25°S 48°W). We investigated the impact of size and weight, nutritional condition, and presence of epibionts and fibropapilloma tumors. Nutritional status was good for 39 animals; these animals had higher serum albumin, cholesterol, and phosphorus concentrations than 9 animals with a fair nutritional score. Reference values for hematolo ...[more]