Jurnal Ilmu Ternak dan Veteriner
Vol 1, No 1 (1995)

Pathological features of malignant catarrhal fever in rabbits with a secondary infection of Encephalitozoon cuniculi

Damayanti, Rini (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Feb 2014

Abstract

Thirty rabbits were used in this study: 22 were infected and eight were used as controls . Fourteen rabbits were inoculated with blood taken from Ongole (Bos indices) cattle or buffalo naturally infected with malignant catarrhal fever (MCF). Another eight rabbits were inoculated with lymphoblastoid cell liras which contain Ovine Herpesvirus-2 (OHV-2), the causal agent of sheep-associated MCF. Various degrees and distributions of histological changes were observed and resembling the lesions developed in MCF. However 17 infected rabbits (77.3%) with non-suppurative meningoencephalitis, eight of them (47.196) were associated with the detection of Encephalhozoon cuniculi histologically . Key words: MCF, Encephalitozoon cuniculi, rabbits

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JITV

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Subject

Veterinary

Description

Aims JITV (Jurnal Ilmu ternak dan Veteriner) or Indonesian Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences (IJAVS) aims to publish original research results and reviews on farm tropical animals such as cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, poultry, as well as non domesticated Indonesian endemic ...