Selwyn Arlington Headley, Gisele Augusta Amorim de Lemos, Alais Maria Dall Agnol, Ana Aparecida Correa Xavier, Victória Coronado Antunes Depes, Carolina Yuka Yasumitsu, Thalita Ernani Silva Oliveira, Luara Evangelista Silva, Tatiane Cargnin Faccin, Amauri Alcindo Alfieri, Júlio Augusto Naylor Lisboa
Sheep-associated malignant catarrhal fever (SA-MCF) is a severe, frequently fatal, lymphoproliferative disease that affects a wide variety of ruminants and is caused by ovine gammaherpesvirus 2 (OvHV-2), a member of the MCF virus (MCFV) complex. The typical clinical manifestations of SA-MCF are well known and easily recognized by veterinarians, resulting in clinical diagnosis of MCF when characteristic clinical signs are present. This article describes the findings observed in cattle infected with OvHV-2 but without typical clinical manifestations of SA-MCF...
March 2022: Brazilian Journal of Microbiology: [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology]