Stiff lamb disease in New Zealand

Authors: Hartley WJ
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 1, Issue 6, pp 137-142, Dec 1953
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Livestock, Production animal, Ruminant, Sheep
Subject Terms: Biosecurity, Locomotor, Muscle/myology, Disease/defect, New hosts/new diseases, Pathology, Trace elements, Selenium, Nutritional disease/disorder
Article class: Scientific Article

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Abstract:

Extract: During recent years a specific myopathy has been recognized in lambs in the South Island of New Zealand. In view of the similarity of the lesions of this condition to “stiff lamb disease,” as described by various workers in the U.S.A. and also more recently by Cotchin in Great Britain, it was thought desirable to record the problem as encountered in New Zealand.

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