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JOURNAL OF VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATION
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 134-136Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/104063871002200129
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Alpacas; bluetongue; fatal; orbivirus
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In October 2008, a 15-year-old female alpaca (Vicugna pacos) housed at a breeding farm in northern California died after a brief illness characterized by sudden onset of weakness, recumbency, and respiratory distress. Postmortem examination revealed severe hydrothorax and hydropericardium, marked pulmonary edema, and acute superficial myocardial hemorrhage affecting the left ventricle. Bluetongue virus (BTV) was detected in the spleen by quantitative real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and confirmed by sequence analysis. No antibodies against BTV were detected in the serum using a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, confirming acute, fulminant BTV infection.
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