Vitamin E-selenium deficiency in swine: differential diagnosis and nature of field problem

Trapp, A.L.; Keahey, K.K.; Whitenack, D.L.; Whitehair, C.K.

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 157(3): 289-300

1970


ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488
PMID: 4915367
Document Number: 27882
A vitamin E-selenium deficiency, diagnosed in 37 Michigan pig herds, was characterized by sudden deaths in "feeder" pigs and lesions of hepatic necrosis, icterus, oedema, hyalinization of the walls of arterioles, and skeletal and cardiac muscular degeneration. Oedema was prominent in most tissues examined, especially in the mesentery of the spiral colon, lungs, subcutaneous tissues, and submucosa of the stomach.

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