Jung Ji Youl, Kim Hyun Jeong, Lee Kyunghyun, Choi Jun Gu, Kim Yeon Hee, Lee Kyoung Ki, Kim Young Dae, So ByungJae, Kang Hae Eun, Choi Eun Jin
Animal Disease Diagnostic Division, Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Gimcheon 39660, Korea.
College of Veterinary Medicine, Jeju National University, Jeju 63243, Korea.
J Vet Sci. 2019 Nov;20(6):e65. doi: 10.4142/jvs.2019.20.e65.
A 10-year-old male spotted seal presented with loss of appetite and decreased activity. Grossly, the internal organs revealed several filarial nematodes in the right ventricle of the heart and the pulmonary vessels. Histopathological examination of the brain revealed moderate nonsuppurative meningoencephalitis with glial nodules and neuronophagia. Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) of genotype I was isolated from the brain. All nematodes were identified as . This is the first clinical case of co-infection with and JEV in a seal, suggesting that the seal, may be a dead-end host, like the human and horse, for JEV.
一只10岁雄性斑海豹出现食欲不振和活动减少的症状。大体检查发现，其内部器官在心脏右心室和肺血管中有数条丝虫线虫。对脑部进行组织病理学检查发现中度非化脓性脑膜脑炎，伴有胶质结节和噬神经元现象。从脑部分离出I型日本脑炎病毒（JEV）。所有线虫均被鉴定为……这是海豹同时感染……和JEV的首例临床病例，表明海豹可能像人类和马一样，是JEV的终末宿主。
