2006, Cilt 22, Sayı 3-4, Sayfa(lar) 109-111
Shell Softening and Shell Rot in Turtles
Arif Kurtdede, C. Çağrı Çıngı, Kerem Ural, Fulya Şahin
Ankara Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi. İç Hastalıklar Anabilim Dalı, ANKARA
Keywords: Turtles, Shell softening, Shell rot
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In the present case report series the aim was to emphasize treatment applications in four red-eared slider at the age of 2-3 years old referring with histories of softened-shell on carapace's rear edges and centrum and anorexia and two land turtles relerring with histories of erythema, softening and serose oozing on plastrone to the University of Ankara, Faculty of Veterinary, Department of Internal Medicine and thus to indicate shell softening and shell rot as important problems in turtles.