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1Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa. m.g.collett@massey.ac.nz
Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
|June 29, 2002
Abstract:
An 8-week-old piglet with dyspnoea, bilateral mucopurulent nasal discharge and mouth breathing was euthanased and a necropsy was performed. Apart from histological evidence of diffuse rhinitis, large intranuclear inclusion bodies, pathognomonic forporcine cytomegalovirus infection, were detected within mucous glands on the nasal turbinates. This is the first such case to be diagnosed in South Africa.
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