{"topic_id":"evidence_exotic_reptile_nutrition","category":"evidence","context":"---\ntopic_id: evidence_exotic_reptile_nutrition\ncategory: evidence\ntitle: \"Evidence cluster — nutrition / feeding of companion reptiles (tortoise, lizard, chelonian) (peer-reviewed, Europe PMC)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Europe PMC (Europe PubMed Central) REST search, first-hand peer-reviewed abstracts, pulled 2026-07-22\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_exotic_reptile_nutrition_2026-07-22.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-22\ntokens_estimated: 289\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 25\n  passed: 25\n  date: 2026-07-22\n---\n\n# Evidence: nutrition / feeding of companion reptiles (tortoise, lizard, chelonian)\n\nSource: Europe PMC (Europe PubMed Central) REST search — first-hand peer-reviewed abstract records, pulled 2026-07-22. Query: `(reptile OR \"bearded dragon\" OR \"turtle\") AND (diet OR feeding OR nutrition)`. The cluster returns **10839** records in Europe PMC; 5 representative studies are extracted below. Abstract text is verbatim from source; each study is traceable by PMID.\n\n## Studies\n- **PMID 41007981 (2025, Animals : an open access journal from MDPI)** — Systemic CD3+ T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia in a Bearded Dragon (&lt;i&gt;Pogona vitticeps)&lt;/i&gt;: Clinical, Therapeutic, and Pathological Findings.. A three-year-old male bearded dragon (<i>Pogona vitticeps</i>) exhibited acute anorexia.\n- **PMID 41632107 (2026, Acta veterinaria Hungarica)** — Effect of different dietary supplements on the growth and blood parameters of bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps).. Metabolic bone disease of nutritional origin (Ca/vitamin D3 deficiency) is common in pet reptiles.\n- **PMID 41317138 (2026, Veterinary medicine and science)** — Detection of Cryptosporidium and Giardia duodenalis in Reptiles in Thailand.. Cryptosporidium spp.\n- **PMID 41017027 (2025, Emerging infectious diseases)** — Reptile Exposure in Human Salmonellosis Cases and Salmonella Serotypes Isolated from Reptiles, Ontario, Canada, 2015-2022.. Reptile-associated outbreaks of human Salmonella infections are increasing in Canada, coinciding with a rise in the popularity of reptiles as pets.\n- **PMID 42041919 (2026, Biology)** — Herping the African Continent: Alien Amphibians and Reptiles in Sub-Saharan Africa.. Introduction of species represents today one of the most important problems of nature conservation.\n\nSource text: `pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_exotic_reptile_nutrition_2026-07-22.txt` (Europe PMC first-hand abstracts, pulled 2026-07-22).\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":289,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}