Muscular dystrophy in New Zealand livestock

Abstract

Extract Muscular dystrophy can be briefly described as a non-inflammatory degeneration or necrosis of skeletal musculature, cardiac musculature, or of both. This type of lesion is characteristically seen in several species of animals kept on diets deficient in Vitamin E and, for this reason, field outbreaks of muscular dystrophy in livestock are widely considered to be associated with Vitamin E deficiency.