Case Report:White-spot disease of Chinese soft-shelled turtles (Trionyx sinens) caused by Paecilomyces lilacinus
- Author:
LI XIAO-LIANG
1
;
ZHANG CHU-LONG
;
FANG WEI-HUAN
;
LIN FU-CHENG
Author Information
1. 浙江大学
- Keywords:
White-spot disease;
Chinese soft-shelled turtles;
Paecilomyces lilacinus;
Zhejiang
- From:
Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B
2008;9(7):578-581
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Chinese soft-shelled turtles (Trionyx sinens) in culture farms using an artificial warming system in Zhejiang, China,often show typical signs of white-spot disease such as white spots on their bodies, skin lesions, anorexia and eventually death. The sick turtles were mostly 5～80 g in weight. A suspected fungai pathogen was isolated from the sick turtles and verified as Pae-cilomyces lilacinus by sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of its ribosomal DNA (rDNA). Detailed mor-phological examinations were also conducted to confirm the white-spot disease.
