Volume 15, Number 2—February 2009
Dispatch
Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease in Cattle, Western Turkey
Ethem Mutlu Temizel
, Kadir Yesilbag, Carrie Batten, Sezgin Senturk, Narender S. Maan, Peter Paul Clement Mertens, and Hasan Batmaz
, Kadir Yesilbag, Carrie Batten, Sezgin Senturk, Narender S. Maan, Peter Paul Clement Mertens, and Hasan BatmazTable 1
Clinical signs in cattle tested for EHD, Turkey, 2007*
| EHD status† | No. cattle with clinical sign |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discharge‡ | Redness§ | Recumbency | CE | Anorexia | RM | UE | Stomatitis | RD | Lame | |
| Suspected (n = 41) | 13 | 12 | 2 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 6 |
| PCR+ (n = 1) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Seropositive (n = 1) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Virus isolated (n = 6) | 5 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
*EHD, epizootic hemorrhagic disease; CE, conjunctival edema; RM, reduced milk; UE, udder edema; RD, respiratory distress.
†PCR, ELISA, and virus isolation were performed on selected samples from the 41 samples (11 whole blood samples, 4 serum samples, and 15 supernatant samples from the baby hamster kidney cells). The virus-positive animals were PCR negative.
‡Nasal and ocular discharge
§Redness and scaling of nose and lips.
