Isolation of an adenovirus and an adeno-associated virus from goat kids with enteritis.
A dairy goat operation in Minnesota experienced a sudden, markedly increased mortality among its neonatal goats. Approximately 60 of 130 kids (46%) died. The animals had diarrhea and dyspnea of 1-2 days duration before death. Necropsy of 4 goat kids revealed marked, acute, catarrhal enteritis and fibrinous pleuropneumonia. Mannheimia haemolytica was isolated from the lungs. Basophilic inclusion bodies filling the entire nucleus were present in enterocytes of the ileum of 3 goats. Adenoviral particles were detected in the feces by electron microscopy and adenovirus was subsequently isolated from the intestinal content together with a parvo-like virus (dependovirus). Morphology, physicochemical characteristics, and neutralization tests indicated that the adenovirus resembled ovine adenovirus-2 (OAdV-2). However, the PstI restriction endonuclease pattern produced by the goat adenovirus was distinct from that of OAdV-2. This is the first report of enteritis in goats with an adenovirus antigenically related to OAdV-2 and with a parvo-like dependovirus.
Department of Veterinary Diagnostic Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA.
Erik J
EJ
Olson
Scott R R
SR
Haskell
Rodney K
RK
Frank
Howard D
HD
Lehmkuhl
Lea Ann
LA
Hobbs
Janet V
JV
Warg
John G
JG
Landgraf
Arno
A
Wünschmann
D000256:Adenoviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D000257:Adenoviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000379:methods; D000818:Animals; D000833:Animals, Suckling; D000229:Dependovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary*; D004751:Enteritis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology*; D005243:Feces / Q000821:virology; D005260:Female; D015511:Goat Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D006041:Goats; D008297:Male; D016978:Mannheimia haemolytica / Q000302:isolation & purification; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission / Q000662:veterinary; D008910:Minnesota / Q000453:epidemiology; D010322:Parvoviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D016871:Pasteurellaceae Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary; D011001:Pleuropneumonia / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary