An 8-year-old, male huacaya alpaca presented for a left mandibular swelling that was not responsive to antimicrobial treatment. A computed tomography scan obtained, confirming the presence of lytic bone destruction and primary osteomyelitis. Surgical debridement area performed surgical site packed with antibiotic-loaded calcium sulphate beads provide local antibiotic delivery support new format...

Disease is a major constraint in small ruminant production systems in lesser-developed countries throughout the world. Animal health projects have been an integral part of the Small Ruminant Collaborative Research Support Program (SR-CRSP) from its inception. At the onset, these projects were oriented toward herd health care and veterinary extension activities. Later, all the projects developed...

Hypertrophic osteopathy (Marie’s disease) is a syndrome characterised by periosteal proliferation along the metaphyses and diaphyses proximal and distal to the joints of long bones classically associated with space-occupying lesions of the thorax (Butler et al. 1993). The syndrome is most frequently documented in human and canine patients (Brown et al. 1980), but has also been diagnosed infrequ...