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Chronic disease in the Mojave desert tortoise: Host physiology and recrudescence obscure patterns of pathogen transmission

A seminatural, factorial‐design experiment was used to quantify dynamics of the pathogen Mycoplasma agassizii and upper respiratory tract disease in the Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) over 2 years. Groups of initially healthy animals were separated into serologically positive (seroposit...

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Autores principales: Sandmeier, Franziska C., Maloney, K. Nichole, Tracy, C. Richard, Hyde, David, Mohammadpour, Hamid, Marlow, Ron, DuPré, Sally, Hunter, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5743692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29299243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3480