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Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 10(4), 1974, pp. 392-396
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VULVOVAGINITIS IN WILDEBEEST CAUSED BY THE VIRUS OF INFECTIOUS BOVINE RHINOTRACHEITIS

L. KARSTAD 1, D. M. JESSETT 2, J. C. OTEMA 2, and S. DREVEMO 3

1 Wildlife Diseases Section, Veterinary Research Laboratory, P.O. Kabete, Kenya
2 Virology Division, East African Veterinary Research Organization, Mugugu, P.O. Box 32, Kikuyu, Kenya
3 Royal Veterinary College, Stockholm, Sweden

During studies on bovine malignant catarrhal fever, 8 recently captured female wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) were injected daily for 1 week with the corticosteroid betamethasone. All developed pustular vulvovaginitis 7 to 9 days after the first injection. Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus (IBRV) was isolated from vaginal swabs from seven animals. Serum neutralizing antibody to IBRV was present in seven animals before injection of the corticosteroid, and the titres increased during convalescence. It is presumed that the wildebeest were latent carriers of IBRV in genital tissue. One of the IBRV isolates produced mild vulvovaginitis in a domestic heifer inoculated by the vaginal route.

Submitted on March 19, 1974






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