Tomkins N W, Jonsson N N, Young M P, Gordon A N, McColl K A
Division of Farm Animal Medicine and Production, University of Queensland.
Aust Vet J. 1997 Oct;75(10):722-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-0813.1997.tb12253.x.
On the basis of clinical signs and histological findings eight 9-month-old male rusa deer (Cervus timorensis) were diagnosed with sheep associated-malignant catarrhal fever. Following a variable course involving rectal temperatures around 40.5 degrees C, depression, inappetence, diarrhoea, corneal opacity and hypopyon all animals died or were euthanased over a 5-week period. Severe multifocal vasculitis, mainly periglomerular and in the arcuate vessels were consistent histological findings which in the past have been adequate to confirm clinical diagnosis of sheep associated-malignant catarrhal fever. A nested polymerase chain reaction test has been used to detect a sheep associated-malignant catarrhal fever PRC product, 238 base-pairs in size, in DNA extracted from lymphocyte preparations. The result supported the diagnosis of sheep associated-malignant catarrhal fever in these deer.
根据临床症状和组织学检查结果，8只9个月大的雄性帝汶鹿（Cervus timorensis）被诊断为绵羊相关恶性卡他热。在经历了包括直肠温度约40.5摄氏度、抑郁、食欲不振、腹泻、角膜混浊和前房积脓等不同病程后，所有动物在5周内死亡或被安乐死。严重的多灶性血管炎，主要在肾小球周围和弓形血管中，是一致的组织学检查结果，过去这些结果足以确诊绵羊相关恶性卡他热的临床诊断。一种巢式聚合酶链反应试验已被用于从淋巴细胞制剂中提取的DNA中检测出大小为238个碱基对的绵羊相关恶性卡他热PCR产物。该结果支持了这些鹿患有绵羊相关恶性卡他热的诊断。
