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Chelonian Ocular Disease: Examination and Diagnostic Workup
A clinical framework for localizing eyelid, conjunctival, corneal, orbital, respiratory, and nutritional disease in turtles and tortoises while interpreting culture and husbandry findings cautiously.
Read →Bearded Dragon Atadenovirus: PCR Diagnosis and Clinical Management
An evidence-based approach to Agamid adenovirus 1 in bearded dragons: interpret PCR in context, investigate coinfections and husbandry, isolate positives, and avoid equating detection with causation.
Read →Reptile Septicemia: Diagnosis, Sampling, and Treatment
A clinician-focused workflow for suspected reptile septicemia: stabilize the patient, localize the source, collect representative samples, interpret bacterial growth in context, select therapy through susceptibility and stewardship, and correct husbandry and immune stressors.
Read →Chelonian Shell Fractures: Triage, Imaging, and Repair
A clinician-focused approach to traumatic shell fractures in turtles and tortoises, covering whole-patient stabilization, wound assessment, imaging, staged management, fixation choices, husbandry, and follow-up.
Read →Reptile Renal Disease: Diagnosis and Clinical Management
A species-aware workflow for reptile renal disease: stabilize perfusion, separate prerenal, intrinsic, and postrenal causes, interpret uric acid and emerging biomarkers cautiously, select imaging and tissue tests, and monitor treatment response.
Read →Reptile Cloacal Prolapse: Organ Identification and Treatment
A DVM workflow for reptile prolapse: stabilize and protect exposed tissue, identify the organ, investigate gastrointestinal, urinary and reproductive causes, judge viability, reduce or operate, and prevent recurrence.
Read →Serpentovirus (Nidovirus) Infection in Snakes: PCR Testing, Quarantine, and Clinical Management
Serpentovirus is an important differential for respiratory and oral disease in captive snakes, but PCR positivity does not by itself prove active disease. Review sample selection, serial result interpretation, quarantine, supportive care, and coinfection assessment.
Read →Yellow Fungus Disease (Nannizziopsis guarroi) in Bearded Dragons
Yellow fungus disease in bearded dragons is an invasive, contagious dermatomycosis caused by Nannizziopsis guarroi (formerly CANV). A clinical hub on taxonomy, diagnosis by culture, histopathology and PCR, antifungal dosing (voriconazole, terbinafine), debridement, biosecurity, and prognosis.
Read →Chelonian Aural Abscess: A Clinical Reference for Vets
Aural abscess in turtles is a caseous middle-ear plug that must be surgically removed — antibiotics alone fail. Etiology, the hypovitaminosis-A and organochlorine debate, culture, surgery, and prognosis for the practicing DVM.
Read →Snake Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium serpentis): Diagnosis, the Pseudoparasitism Trap, and Treatment
A clinical reference on gastric cryptosporidiosis in snakes: why Cryptosporidium serpentis is effectively incurable, how genotyping separates true infection from prey-derived oocyst pass-through, which diagnostic samples actually perform, and what the treatment literature really shows.
Read →Respiratory Infection in Reptiles: A Clinical Reference for Snakes and Lizards
Reptile respiratory infection is a husbandry-driven, predominantly gram-negative bacterial disease. This DVM hub covers etiology, culture-directed antibiotic dosing, nebulization, and the non-negotiable step of correcting temperature, humidity, and hygiene.
Read →Hypovitaminosis A in Reptiles: Squamous Metaplasia, Aural Abscesses, and the Narrow Dosing Margin
Clinical reference on vitamin A deficiency in chelonians and insectivorous lizards — squamous metaplasia as the unifying lesion, the aural-abscess association and the evidence that undercuts it, plasma retinol diagnostics, and parenteral dosing set against the published toxic band of 50,000-100,000 IU/kg.
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