Updates for Reptile Pediatric Medicine.

Congenital disorders Hypovitaminosis A Hypovitaminosis D Reptile pediatric medicine Salmonella Spider ball python

Journal

The veterinary clinics of North America. Exotic animal practice

ISSN: 1558-4232

Titre abrégé: Vet Clin North Am Exot Anim Pract

Pays: United States

ID NLM: 9815628

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
13 Dec 2023

Historique:

medline: 15 12 2023

pubmed: 15 12 2023

entrez: 14 12 2023

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

The health of hatchling, juvenile, and young adult reptiles continues to be plagued by historic nutritional deficiencies, old and emerging infectious diseases, and more recent phenotype-selective congenital abnormalities that impact welfare. Knowledge of mating seasonality, average egg counts, gestation times, and age and/or size for sexual maturity is necessary to help guide best practices for care of pediatric reptiles. Calcium, vitamin D3, and ultraviolet B (UVB) lighting recommendations vary in effectiveness amongst different species and can change with age. Phenotype-selective color patterns for spider ball pythons and scalation pattern for bearded dragons have resulted in vestibular disease, and increased evaporative water loss, respectively. Salmonellosis remains the most reported zoonotic disease for captive reptiles in the United States, despite improvements in client education and improvements in captive reptile husbandry.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.cvex.2023.11.013 PMID: 38097491

pubmed: 38097491

pii: S1094-9194(23)00079-8

doi: 10.1016/j.cvex.2023.11.013

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doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

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Disclosure The author has nothing to disclose and is unaware of any conflicts of interest.