Multisystemic necrotising vasculitis in a pygmy goat (<i>Capra hircus</i>)

Twomey, D. F.; Campbell, Iain; Cranwell, M. P.; Nettleton, P. F.; Sayers, Ghislaine

doi:10.1136/vr.158.25.867

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“…OvHV-2 infection does occur in goats, 4,5,7 though cases of dermatitis are infrequently reported. 3 This case demonstrates that OvHV-2 can cause dermatitis in goats.…”

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Diagnostic Challenge in Veterinary Pathology: Alopecic Crusting Dermatitis in a Goat

et al. 2021

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In April 2020, a 1-year-old castrated Nigerian dwarf goat presented with a 4-month history of skin lesions unresponsive to topical iodine and extra-label topical miconazole. The wether was bright, alert, and with normal appetite. The goat was the only affected animal in a mixed herd of 7 sheep and 4 goats aged from 6 months to 7 years. The animals were kept on a dry lot and fed strictly timothy and alfalfa hay with access to goat minerals (Purina ® ).The goat had multifocal alopecia with fissures, erosions, crusting, and scaling that predominated on the ventrum (Fig. 1). The cutaneous lesions were nonpruritic, firm, raised, moderately demarcated, and nonpigmented.

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“…OvHV-2 infection does occur in goats, 4,5,7 though cases of dermatitis are infrequently reported. 3 This case demonstrates that OvHV-2 can cause dermatitis in goats.…”

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Diagnostic Challenge in Veterinary Pathology: Alopecic Crusting Dermatitis in a Goat

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“…Sheep-associated MCF has been described in goats in the United Kingdom and Germany. 6,11 The authors described clinical disease in 4 goats that had contact with sheep. Diagnosis was confirmed by demonstration of characteristic histopathological lesions and demonstration of OvHV-2 DNA by PCR.…”

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An 18-month-old cross-bred goat was presented with generalized erythema and thinning of the hair coat, as well as localized moderate scaling. Histopathological evaluation of skin biopsies showed hyperplasia and marked disruption of the infundibular epithelium owing to a predominant infiltrate of macrophages with multinucleated histiocytic giant cells and some lymphocytes, plasma cells, and eosinophils. Examination of peripheral blood and skin by polymerase chain reaction gave positive results for ovine herpesvirus type 2 consistent with a diagnosis of malignant catarrhal fever.

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“…The role of goats as a reservoir species for OvHV‐2 remains unclear. There is both a high seroprevalence and high prevalence of detection of OvHV‐2 DNA in healthy goats (Li and others 1999, Heuschele and Reid 2001), but recent case reports of virologically and histopathologically confirmed OvHV‐2‐associated MCF in goats (Twomey and others 2006, Jacobsen and others 2007) suggested that OvHV‐2 infection in goats is not always subclinical. Further work on the role of goats in the epidemiology of OvHV‐2‐associated MCF is required.…”

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