Ovine herpesvirus type 2 infection in captive bison in India

Veterinary Record 2012;170:654 doi:10.1136/vr.e4291 Richa Sood1, Manoj Kumar1, S. Bhatia1, A. K. Pateriya1, R. Khandia1, A. Siddiqui1, D. D. Kulkarni1, Sanjeev Kumar2 and M. D. Venkatesha2

1High Security Animal Disease Laboratory, Anand Nagar, Bhopal-462021, Madhya Pradesh, India

2Institute of Animal Health and Veterinary Biologicals, Southern Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Hebbal, Bangalore, Karnataka, India e-mail: richa_bhatia{at}yahoo.comMALIGNANT catarrhal fever (MCF) is a fatal disease of wild and domestic ruminants, with severe and widespread inflammatory and degenerative changes in affected animals. It typically has a short, dramatic clinical course, characterised primarily by high fever, severe depression, swollen lymph nodes, salivation, diarrhoea, dermatitis, neurologic disorders and ocular lesions often leading to blindness (Plowright and others 1990). MCF is increasingly being recognised as the cause of significant economic losses in several …

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