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Trimethoprim-sulfonamides is dosed at 30 mg/kg PO q24h x 2-14 days in blue-tongue skinks, per Cranfield MR, Graczyk TK. Experimental infection of elaphid snakes with Cryptosporidium serpentis (Apicomplexa: Cryptosporidiidae). J Small Anim Pract. 2018;59(11):704-713. | Klaphake E, Gibbons PM, Sladky KK, et al. Reptiles. In: Carpenter JW, eds. Exotic Animal Formulary, 5th ed., Elsevier, St. Louis, MO; 2018:81-166. — Source: Carpenter's Exotic Animal Formulary, 6th Ed, p.233 — SOURCE EDITION: Carpenter's Exotic Animal Formulary — ISBN 9780323833929, https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780323833929 [w3r2 2026-08-14] LOCATOR: Carpenter 6th ed, Table 4.4 (Antiparasitic Agents Used in Reptiles), row "30 mg/kg PO q24 x2-14 days87,243 | Most species/coccidia". Held copy is a paginationless ebook conversion, so the table and not the page is the citable location. NOTE ref 87 is a Cryptosporidium snake paper attached by the BOOK to a coccidia dose - reproduced faithfully, not our error.. Verify against current literature before clinical use.
Added 2026-08-04 by the book-verification programme. Every dose rule under this entry was mined from a source, independently re-verified against that source, and adversarially challenged before publication. Drafted for: Blue-tongue Skink
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