Health assessment and seroepidemiologic survey of potential pathogens in wild Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus).

The Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus), a subspecies of the West Indian manatee, inhabits fresh, brackish, and warm coastal waters distributed along the eastern border of Central America, the northern coast of South America, and throughout the Wider Caribbean Region. Threatened primarily...

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Main Authors: Kathryn Sulzner, Christine Kreuder Johnson, Robert K Bonde, Nicole Auil Gomez, James Powell, Klaus Nielsen, M Page Luttrell, A D M E Osterhaus, A Alonso Aguirre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22984521/pdf/?tool=EBI