On the basis of clinical signs and histological findings eight 9-month-old male rusa deer (Cervus timorensis) were diagnosed with sheep associated-malignant catarrhal fever. Following a variable course involving rectal temperatures around 40.5 degrees C, depression, inappetence, diarrhoea, corneal opacity and hypopyon all animals died or were euthanased over a 5-week period. Severe multifocal vasculitis, mainly periglomerular and in the arcuate vessels were consistent histological findings which in the past have been adequate to confirm clinical diagnosis of sheep associated-malignant catarrhal fever. A nested polymerase chain reaction test has been used to detect a sheep associated-malignant catarrhal fever PRC product, 238 base-pairs in size, in DNA extracted from lymphocyte preparations. The result supported the diagnosis of sheep associated-malignant catarrhal fever in these deer.

his paper describes the clinical course, clinical pathology, and T necropsy findings in a llama (Lama Lama) presented with paralysis caused by lxodes holoryrltls. The llama subsequently developed an acute metabolic disturbance similar to hepatic lipidosis. Paralysis by I holocyrlus,although common in other domestic animals, has not been previously reported in llamas, and hepatic lipidosis has not been reported in nonpregnant llamas.