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1 October 2007 Hematologic and Biochemical Reference Intervals of Free-Living Mediterranean Pond Turtles (Mauremys leprosa)
Judit Hidalgo-Vila, Carmen Díaz-Paniagua, Natividad Pérez-Santigosa, Agustín Plaza, Inés Camacho, Fernando Recio
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Abstract

Reference intervals of hematologic and biochemical blood profiles were obtained from 56 male and 58 female Mediterranean pond turtles (Mauremys leprosa) captured from the wild in different periods of their annual cycle. Mean (or median in nonnormal distributions) values of leukocyte differential were 53.8% and 58.5% heterophils, 35.3% and 32.6% eosinophils, 6.3% and 5.8% lymphocytes, 4.3% and 2% monocytes, and 0% and 0% basophils in males and females, respectively. Biochemical values did not differ from other chelonians, but values were generally higher in females than in males.

Hidalgo-Vila, Díaz-Paniagua, Pérez-Santigosa, Plaza, Camacho, and Recio: Hematologic and Biochemical Reference Intervals of Free-Living Mediterranean Pond Turtles (Mauremys leprosa)
Judit Hidalgo-Vila, Carmen Díaz-Paniagua, Natividad Pérez-Santigosa, Agustín Plaza, Inés Camacho, and Fernando Recio "Hematologic and Biochemical Reference Intervals of Free-Living Mediterranean Pond Turtles (Mauremys leprosa)," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43(4), 798-801, (1 October 2007). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-43.4.798
Received: 9 January 2007; Published: 1 October 2007
KEYWORDS
blood chemistry
blood profile
freshwater turtle
hematology
Mauremys leprosa
Mediterranean pond turtle
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