Figure 2
Three-toed box turtles (Terrapene carolina triunguis) brought to the Wildlife Rescue Center from the greater St. Louis area. (A) Turtles are coded by type of injury: 1) trauma by motor vehicle, 2) trauma by other machinery, 3) disease, 4) injury by domesticated animals, 5) uninjured but trapped/kept as pets, and 6) injuries possibly due to natural causes. (B) Subset of the turtles depicted in (A), available for nasal-lavage sampling at the Center in the summers of 2015 and 2016, coded by evidence of emydid mycoplasma infection

Three-toed box turtles (Terrapene carolina triunguis) brought to the Wildlife Rescue Center from the greater St. Louis area. (A) Turtles are coded by type of injury: 1) trauma by motor vehicle, 2) trauma by other machinery, 3) disease, 4) injury by domesticated animals, 5) uninjured but trapped/kept as pets, and 6) injuries possibly due to natural causes. (B) Subset of the turtles depicted in (A), available for nasal-lavage sampling at the Center in the summers of 2015 and 2016, coded by evidence of emydid mycoplasma infection

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