Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: Jan 01, 2008

Suspected Vitamin E and Selenium Deficiency in a Veiled Chameleon, Chamaeleo calyptratus

DVM,
BVSc, MS, PhD, DABT,
MS, VMD, PhD, DACVP, and
MS, DVM, DACZM
Page Range: 113 – 116
DOI: 10.5818/1529-9651.18.3-4.113
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ABSTRACT

Nutritional myopathy was diagnosed in an adult male veiled chameleon, Chameleo calyptratus. The chameleon presented with a 1-yr history of progressive inability to use tongue, followed by profound weakness and circling. Histopathologic examination revealed generalized, subacute to chronic skeletal myopathy consistent with vitamin E and selenium deficiency seen in mammals.

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