Parasitic Ulcerous Caseous Gastroesophagitis Associated with Rameshwarotrema uterocrescens Rao, 1975 (Digenea: Pronocephalidae) in a Juvenile Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas, Linnaeus 1758 [Testudines: Cheloniidae]): A Case Report

Rachel Bittencourt Ribeiro; Hassan Jerdy; Max R. Werneck; Daphne W. Goldberg; Mariah Bianchi; Eulógio C. Q. Carvalho

doi:10.1645/16-106

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1 June 2017 Parasitic Ulcerous Caseous Gastroesophagitis Associated with Rameshwarotrema uterocrescens Rao, 1975 (Digenea: Pronocephalidae) in a Juvenile Green Turtle ( Chelonia mydas, Linnaeus 1758 [Testudines: Cheloniidae]): A Case Report

Rachel Bittencourt Ribeiro, Hassan Jerdy, Max R. Werneck, Daphne W. Goldberg, Mariah Bianchi, Eulógio C. Q. Carvalho

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J. of Parasitology, 103(3):292-294 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1645/16-106

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Here we report a case of ulcerative caseous gastroesophagitis associated with Rameshwarotrema uterocrescens, Rao, 1975 (Digenea: Pronocephalidae), in a juvenile green turtle (Chelonia mydas) from southern Brazil. Similar pathologies have been reported only in adult green turtles from Costa Rica. This paper presents the second report of parasitic esophagitis due to R. uterocrescens and the first occurrence in juvenile green turtles along coastal Brazil.

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Rachel Bittencourt Ribeiro, Hassan Jerdy, Max R. Werneck, Daphne W. Goldberg, Mariah Bianchi, and Eulógio C. Q. Carvalho "Parasitic Ulcerous Caseous Gastroesophagitis Associated with Rameshwarotrema uterocrescens Rao, 1975 (Digenea: Pronocephalidae) in a Juvenile Green Turtle ( Chelonia mydas, Linnaeus 1758 [Testudines: Cheloniidae]): A Case Report," Journal of Parasitology 103(3), 292-294, (1 June 2017). https://doi.org/10.1645/16-106

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