Veterinary Preventive Medicine-II

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

• Incubation period is 6 days.

Acute form

• Fever and serous rhinorrhoea - Erosions in the mucous membranes lining the upper alimentary, upper respiratory and urogenital tracts for first 1-2 days followed by fever
• Salivation profuse, tongue is continuously protruded and retracted
• Rhinorrhea becomes mucopurulent often blocks the nostrils

  

• Mucosal erosions coalesce, formation of ulcers

    

• Diarrhoea and pneumonia

Per acute form

• Follow incubation period that are often as short as 2 days
• Profuse nasal catarrh precedes a sudden high fever with signs of depression, dyspnoea, anorexia and constipation
• Diarrhoea, leucopaenia