Small turtles cannot legally be sold as pets because of the Salmonella infection risk, but half of online sellers fail to provide information about the law and the disease risk

Small turtles cannot legally be sold as pets because of the Salmonella infection risk, but half of online sellers fail to provide information about the law and the disease risk

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278443

Article Title: Online sale of small turtles circumvents public health regulations in the United States

Contact: Niamh E. Keane, [email protected], Ph.: +1 781 530 0277; Juliana M. Marcotrigiano, [email protected], Ph.: +1 908 514 9288

Author Countries: USA

Funding: L.E.M., J.M.M., and N.E. Keane received an Undergraduate Research Grant from the University of Rhode Island (https://web.uri.edu/undergraduate-research/). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. J.A.S. and N.E. Karraker received an award (#2018428) from the National Science Foundation – Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology (https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/research-coordination-networks-undergraduate-biology-education-rcn-ube). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.