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VIT E-SELENIUM - 028A.jpg

Clinical Signs: 
inability to stand or ambulate
Clinical description: 
In the muscular dystrophy form of vitamin E deficiency, skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles can all develop lesions resulting in clinical signs. Here a young duck is unable to stand and its legs are spread laterally. These signs are the result of muscular dystrophy of the leg muscles.
Record number: 
7074
Case number: 
Unknown
Clinical form: 
Unknown
Infection type: 
Unknown
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Priority: 
1
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Image source URL: 
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