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Differential Diagnosis

Cattle - Mouth and/or Nares

 

Mucosal Disease Complex

 

Presence of high case fatality rate (over 90%) and low morbidity of animals aged 6-24 months of age. High fever, depression, anorexia, excess salivation, profuse watery diarrhoea. Foul smelling faeces which may contain mucus and blood. Discrete, shallow erosions occur inside the lips, on the gums and dental pad, on the posterior part of the hard palate at the commissures of the mouth and on the tongue; also on the muzzle and in and around the nares. Mucopurulent nasal discharge.

Differentiated from FMD by the absence of vesicular lesions, and high case fatality rate in animals older than 12 months.

   


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