Clinical signs and diagnosis

CLINICAL SIGNS AND DIAGNOSIS

Clinical signs and diagnosis

  • Incubation period is 5 to 15 days
  • Common signs - Fever, depression, ocular discharge, cough, diarrhea and dehydration
  • Lesions resemble hog cholera but are more severe.
  • Hemorrhages are present frequently on the epicardium and endocardium, and in lymph nodes, less frequently on the kidneys and bladder.
  • The spleen is enlarged, but there are much less infarcts than in Hog cholera

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Diagnosis

  • Samples to be collected - blood, spleen, lungs and lymph nodes
    • By characteristic clinical signs
    • Isolation of virus in cell culture- bone marrow leucocytes cells
    • Serological tests - AGID, ELISA, Radio immuno assay

Differential diagnosis

  • Must be differentiated from
    • Hog cholera
    • Erysipelas
    • Salmonellosis
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