National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
In India, large population of tortoise are reported to have chronic respiratory diseases, which has been responsible for high morbidity and low mortality rates in chelonians. The present report describes a case of Chronic respiratory and Metabolic Bone disease in a 4-month-old Indian tortoise (G. elegans). The predisposing factor for illness was poor husbandry and maintenance of the animal. The animal was presented with chief complaint of trouble in breathing and anorexia. The tortoise chiefly showed signs of tenacious mucoid bubbling to mucopurulent discharge from the nose, palpebral edema, and dyspnoea that lasted for 20 days. The Dorso-ventral radiograph revealed affection of the lung and abdominal cavity. Along with that the animal also had marbled appearance of the vertebral and costal scutes. The shell of the tortoise was soft and deformed. The case was critical, and the animal had thin chances of survival. Due to metabolic bone disease and chronic respiratory disease, animal should have succumbed to an uneventful death. however, timely management and therapy of animal protected it from disease as it was treated and managed with Enrofloxacin @ 5mg/kg given subcutaneously in rounds of 24 hr for 1 week along with antibiotic-steroid combination ophthalmic solution through nasal cavity. The tortoise responded to the medication well and recovered in 10 days.
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