title: White-spot disease of Chinese soft-shelled turtles (Trionyx sinens) caused by Paecilomyces lilacinus.
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 fungal pathogen was isolated from the sick turtles and verified as Paecilomyces lilacinus by sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of its ribosomal DNA (rDNA). Detailed morphological examinations were also conducted to confirm the white-spot disease.
authors.affiliation: Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Liang
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Chu-Long
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Wei-Huan
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Fu-Cheng
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D010143:Paecilomyces / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014426:Turtles / Q000382:microbiology*