Author/Authors :
GÜR, Sibel Afyon Kocatepe University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Virology, Turkey , BİRDANE, Mehmet Fatih Afyon Kocatepe University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Internal medicine, Turkey , YAPICI, Orhan Selçuk University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Virology, Turkey
Abstract :
A four year-old Simmental bred cow was referred to faculty hospital complaint with skin lesions, anorexia, rapid weight loss, sharply decreased milk yield in last 25 days and skin lesions were become more widespread in 10 days including mouth and mamma. Clinical examination findings were fever, increase in pulse and respiratory rate, constipation, enlargement of whole superficial lymph nodes, firm mass tumoral formations in the pre-scapular, mandibular and inguinal lymph nodes. Grey-black necrotic lesions with ulcerative center were observed in upper gingiva, junction of corpus and papilla mamma and in whole skin, mostly in the head and neck region. Blood serum sample was found to be positive on the controlling using indirect ELISA test for Bovine Leukosis Virus. The animal was sent to slaughterhouse due to poor diagnosis. In the post-mortem macroscopic examination, tumoral formation were determined in spleen, intestines, prescapular area and various lymph nodules in submandibula, inguinal and suprammar areas. Enzootic leucosis was detected in many regions in different proportions, but sporadic skin form was determined for the first time with this study in Turkey.
