Original scientific paper

Myocarditis associated with foot-and-mouth disease in suckling calves.

Mustafa S. Aktas ; Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey
Yunusemre Ozkanlar ; Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey
Ertan Oruc ; Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey
Ibrahim Sozdutmaz ; Department of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
Akin Kirbas ; Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey

Abstract

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) can lead to myocarditis in young animals, but the age distributions of calves with myocarditis have not been described, nor the biochemical profile in these calves. In an area endemic with foot-and-mouth disease, calves less than 6 months of age in infected farms were examined for clinical lesions and abnormalities in respiratory rate, heart rate and heart rhythm. In total, 53 calves were identified to be suspected of having foot-and-mouth disease infection. In 6 calves myocarditis was suspected based on tachypnea, tachycardia and gallop rhythm. In these 6 calves, cardiac troponin-I (cTnI) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) were significantly higher (P<0.0001), but the levels of Creatinine Kinase MB (CK-MB) and Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) were not. These 6 calves died within 2 days and histopathology confirmed myocarditis. All calves with myocarditis were younger than 2-months old, suggesting that myocarditis caused by FMD is mainly found in very young suckling calves.

Keywords

foot and mouth diseases; myocarditis; suckling calves

Hrčak ID:

140871

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/140871

Publication date:

26.6.2015.

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