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Epizootic hemorrhagic disease in a yak
Sarah M Raabis1, Stacey R Byers1, Sushan Han1
1Department of Clinical Sciences (Raabis, Byers, Callan), and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology (Han), College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1620, USA.
Abstract:
Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) infection was diagnosed in a 3-year-old yak. The yak had signs of intermittent tremors, dysphagia, oral ulcerative lesions, hemorrhagic enteritis, tachypnea, and thrombocytopenia. Postmortem diagnostics confirmed EHDV (serotype 2) using reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Gross and histopathological results were consistent with EHDV reported in other species.

