title: An outbreak of mucosal disease in a dairy herd.
abstract: An outbreak of mucosal disease (MD) was studied in a dairy herd, comprising 12 cows, 9 heifers and 18 calves. During a period of 1 month, six 5 to 8 month-old calves showed typical signs of MD. They all died or were killed in extremis after 2-8 days with progressively worsening clinical signs. Post mortem lesions were examined in one calf. Non-cytopathogenic MD virus was isolated from serum or tissues from 3 clinically affected calves and from 1 healthy heifer. All cows and heifers except for the viremic one possessed neutralizing antibodies against bovine pestivirus. According to the current MD-pathogenesis concept, the affected calves were probably infected transplacentally during the first half of foetal life with pestivirus from the persistently infected heifer in the herd.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Løken
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gamlem
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Lysbakken
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001912:Bovine Virus Diarrhea-Mucosal Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology