Over the past few decades, there have been increasing numbers of reports of diseases in
marine turtles. Furthermore, in recent years, there have been documented instances of …

Blood flukes of the family Spirorchiidae are important disease agents in marine turtles. The
family is near cosmopolitan in distribution. Twenty-nine marine species across 10 genera …

Since the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles was published in 1997, the field has
grown and matured in ways few of the authors would have predicted—particularly in the …

The impact of a range of different threats has resulted in the listing of six out of seven sea
turtle species on the IUCN Red List of endangered species. Disease risk analysis (DRA) …

Spirorchiid trematodes are implicated as an important cause of stranding and mortality in
sea turtles worldwide. However, the impact of these parasites on sea turtle health is poorly …

The parasite fauna of marine turtles is varied and diverse. It includes helminths, protozoa,
arthropods, and annelids. The amazing thing is that some of these marine turtles migrate …

Blood flukes of the family Spirorchiidae Stunkard, 1921 are significant pathogens of marine
turtles, both in the wild and in captivity. Despite causing considerable disease and mortality …

Background Caretta caretta is the most abundant sea turtle species in the Mediterranean,
and studies on this species have vastly expanded during recent years, including those …

Turtle blood flukes belonging to the family Spirorchiidae (Digenea) represent a major threat
for sea turtle health and are considered the most important parasitic cause of turtle stranding …

We investigated the factors providing structure to the helminth communities of 182
loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, collected in 6 localities from Central and Western …