spirorchid
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[edit]Noun
[edit]spirorchid (plural spirorchids)
- Any trematode of the family Spirorchiidae.
- 2015 August 5, Francesco C. Origgi et al., “A Genomic Approach to Unravel Host-Pathogen Interaction in Chelonians: The Example of Testudinid Herpesvirus 3”, in PLoS ONE[1], volume 10, :
- Terrapene herpesvirus 1 was detected in captive eastern box turtles ( Terrapene carolina carolina ) with stomatitis and glossitis [ 31 ], whereas Terrapene herpesvirus 2 was recently identified in an eastern box turtle coinfected with a spirorchid trematode and with papillomatous growths [ 32 ].