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Differential Diagnosis

Cattle - Mouth and/or Nares

 

Malignant Catarrhal Fever

 

Presence of high fever (41- 41.5ºC), severe depression, agalactia and anorexia. Profuse mucopurulent nasal discharge, severe dyspnoea with stertor due to obstruction of nasal passages. Oedema of the eyelids and ocular discharge. Opacity of the cornea. Erosive buccal lesions. Superficial necrosis of the nasal and buccal mucosae. Morbidity rate very variable. Case mortality rate usually 100%.

Differentiated from FMD by the absence of vesicular lesions and high herd morbidity in FMD.

   


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