Abstract

One adult female and three male roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) fawns found dead in the wild were necropsied. All animals had numerous erosive, ulcerative, and necrotizing lesions of the digestive mucosa. Catarrhal to hemorrhagic enteritis was present in two cases. Microscopic lesions of the mucous membranes of the oral cavity, esophagus, and rumen were edematous, and there was swelling and eosinophilia of cells in the stratum basale and spinosum. In addition, basophilic and eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies appeared in cells of the stratum basale and spinosum. These lesions affected both sexes and all age classes of animals and are suggested to have been caused by an unidentified and/or undescribed virus.

Keywords

bovine virus diarrhea/mucosal disease; roe deer; Capreolus capreolus; virus; enteritis; epithelium

Published in

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
1996, Volume: 27, number: 1, pages: 71-75
Publisher: AMER ASSOC Z00 VETERINARIANS

SLU Authors

• Steen, Margareta

  • Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Faber, William

  • Department of Wildlife Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Pathobiology


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/69758