Category: Disease Profiles
Chytrid Fungus May Have Chink In Its Armor
The researchers are currently studying how the BdDV-1 virus works, how it infects the fungus and how it gets into the cells of the fungus [...]
Tail Amputation: Care After Surgery
A majority of amputations only need the tip or back quarter of the tail removed. [...]
Snake Fungal Disease Spreads In California
Snake fungal disease, a debilitating disease that causes a slow death in wild snakes has spread tom more locations in California and has impacted more [...]
Snake Fungal Disease Appeared In USA As Far Back As 1945, Study Says
A microbiologist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, looked at more than 500 preserved snakes in [...]
Metabolic Bone Disease In Reptiles
MBD is not actually a single disease entity, it is a collection of medical disorders affecting the integrity and function of bones. [...]
Fibropapilloma: A Devastating Sea Turtle Disease
Sea turtles have always been considered a sentinel animal in our world’s oceans—the canaries in the coal mine, if you will. These present- [...]
Does Your Tortoise Have Herpesvirus Of Tortoises, Chelonid Herpesvirus?
Causes
Herpesvirus. There are many different kinds of herpesvirus and not all of them cause overt signs of illness.
Species At-Risk
Testudo s [...]
Diagnosing And Treating Dysecdysis aka Retained Shed
Causes
Dysecdysis means an abnormal shedding of the dead outer skin of a reptile. It often indicates suboptimal husbandry, however it may be a sign [...]
Retained Eyecaps In Reptiles Causes And Solutions
Causes
A spectacle is the fused eyelid of a squamate reptile. A retained spectacle is when this fused eyelid does not come off with the rest of the [...]
Causes, Prevention, And Treatment Of Snake Mites, Acariasis
Causes
Ophionyssus natricis is very common in snakes and occasionally infests lizards. Trombiculid mites (chiggers). Ophionyssus acertin [...]
CANV In Reptiles
Yellow fungus, Chrysosporium anamorph of Nannizziopsis vriesii, CANV
Causes
CANV is likely the underlying cause of many infections in older lite [...]
Flagellated Protozoans Of The Gastrointestinal Tract
There are many different flagellated protozoans that live in the gastrointestinal tract of reptiles. [...]
Stick Tail "Disease" in Leopard Geckos
Stick tail in leopard geckos is often caused by an intestinal infection. [...]
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