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Rachel Burns, D.V.M., Diplomate A.C.V.P.

Graham, E.A., R.E. Burns, R.J. Ossiboff. 2021. Depositional Diseases. Pages 107-156 in Noninfectious Diseases and Pathology of Reptiles, Color Atlas and Text, Volume 2. Edited by M.M. Garner, and E.R. Jacobson. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Burns, R.E., P.M. Gaffney, K.P.R. Nilsson, A.G. Armien, A.P. Pessier. 2017. Systemic Amyloidosis in an African Tiger Snake (Telescopus semiannulatus). Journal of Comparative Pathology 157. 135-140.

Belasco-Zeitz, M., G.W. Pye, R.E. Burns, A.P. Pessier. 2013. Clinical challenge. Renal adenocarcinoma in a spitting cobra. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 44(3). 807-810.

Burns, R.E., J. Braun, A. Armien, B.A. Rideout. 2013. Hepatitis and splenitis due to systemic tetratrichomoniasis in an American white pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 25. 511-514.

Burns, R.E., E. Bicknese, J.L. Westropp, R. Shiraki, I. Stalis. 2013. Tumoral calcinosis form of hydroxyapatite deposition disease in related red-bellied short-necked turtles, Emydura subglobosa. Veterinary Pathology 50. 446-450.

Pye, G.W., A. White, P.K. Robbins, R.E. Burns, B.A. Rideout. 2010. Preventive medicine success: thymoma removal in an African spot-necked otter (Lutra maculicollis). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 41. 732-734.

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