Angiostoma carettae is the first species of nematodes known to inhabit turtles.

[1] Each of the loggerheads found to contain Angiostoma carettae had other debilitating disorders.

For this reason, it is hard to pinpoint the exact effect of the nematodes.

Even so, the nematodes caused histologic lesions in the respiratory tract.

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