Occurrence of African horse sickness in a domestic dog without apparent ingestion of horse meat

• DOI: 10.4102/jsava.v84i1.948
• Publication Date: 2013-09-13T11:56:02Z
• Authors: Sybrand J. Van Si...; Tessa M. Drew; Johannes L. Kotze; Tom Strydom; Camilla T. Weyer; Alan J. Guthrie
• Keywords: Histopathology; African horse sickness

This is the first case of African horse sickness (AHS) in a dog where there was no apparent ingestion meat. Significantly, part colony that resides Good Clinical Practice and Laboratory accredited facility complete history, weather feeding records are maintained. The died after week-long illness despite therapy. principal post-mortem findings were severe hydrothorax pulmonary consolidation (red hepatisation lungs). Histopathology revealed oedema congestion lungs, hyaline degeneration myocardium liver sinusoids. Immunohistochemistry detected AHS-positive staining granules myocardium, whilst real-time reverse transcription quantitative Polymerase chain reaction assay tissue samples strongly positive for virus nucleic acid. Other dogs on property showed 43%seroconversion rate to AHS.