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Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 43(3), 2007, pp. 533-537
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Malignant Catarrhal Fever Associated with Ovine Herpesvirus-2 in Free-ranging Mule Deer in Colorado

 Patricia C. Schultheiss1,3, Hana Van Campen1, Terry R. Spraker1, Chad Bishop2, Lisa Wolfe2 and Brendan Podell1

1 Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
2 Colorado Division of Wildlife, Wildlife Research Center, 317 West Prospect Road, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521-2097, USA
3 Corresponding author (email: patricia.schultheiss{at}colostate.edu)

ABSTRACT:   Malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) was diagnosed in four free-ranging mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in January and February of 2003. Diagnosis was based on typical histologic lesions of lymphocytic vasculitis and PCR identification of ovine herpesvirus-2 (OHV-2) viral genetic sequences in formalin-fixed tissues. The animals were from the Uncompahgre Plateau of southwestern Colorado. Deer from these herds occasionally resided in close proximity to domestic sheep (Ovis aries), the reservoir host of OHV-2, in agricultural valleys adjacent to their winter range. These cases indicate that fatal OHV-2 associated MCF can occur in free-ranging mule deer exposed to domestic sheep that overlap their range.
  Key words:  Colorado, free-ranging, malignant catarrhal fever, mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus, ovine herpesvirus-2.




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