A case of chronic wasting disease in a captive red deer (Cervus elaphus).
A 22-month-old, female red deer (Cervus elaphus) was submitted to the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for necropsy and chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing. The deer was found positive for the abnormal prion protein in the obex and the retropharyngeal lymph node by immunohistochemical staining. Microscopic lesions of spongiform encephalopathy and immunohistochemical staining patterns and intensity were similar to those in CWD-positive elk and experimentally infected red deer.
1Marc D. Schwabenlander, Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, University of Minnesota, 1333 Gortner Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55113. schwa239@umn.edu.
Marc D
MD
Schwabenlander
Marie R
MR
Culhane
S Mark
SM
Hall
Sagar M
SM
Goyal
Paul L
PL
Anderson
Michelle
M
Carstensen
Scott J
SJ
Wells
William B
WB
Slade
Aníbal G
AG
Armién
D000818:Animals; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D003670:Deer; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D007150:Immunohistochemistry / Q000662:veterinary; D034081:Wasting Disease, Chronic / Q000473:pathology*
Chronic wasting disease; prion; red deer; transmissible spongiform encephalopathy