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JOURNAL OF VETERINARY SCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 269-271Publisher
KOREAN SOC VETERINARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.4142/jvs.2009.10.3.269
Keywords
animal shelter; canine; hematemesis; hemorrhagic pneumonia; Streptococcus zooepidemicus
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- National Veterinary Research and Development Foundation
- Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Korea
- Agriculture & Forestry Technology Management Center, Republic of Korea [N-AD21-2008-17-01] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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An outbreak of fatal hemorrhagic pneumonia with 70 similar to 90% morbidity and 50% mortality occurred in an animal shelter in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, Korea. Clinically, the affected dogs showed severe respiratory distress within 48 h after arriving in the shelter. The dead were found mainly with nasal bleeding and hematemesis. At necropsy, hemothorax and hemorrhagic pneumonia along with severe pulmonary consolidation was observed, though histopathological analysis showed mainly hemorrhagic bronchopneumonia. Lymphoid depletion was inconsistently seen in the spleen, tonsil and bronchial lymph node. Gram-positive colonies were shown in blood vessels or parenchyma of cerebrum, lung, liver, spleen, and kidney. Also, Streptococcus (S.) equi subsp. zooepidemicus was isolated from the various organs in which the bacterium was microscopically and histologically detected. In addition, approximately 0.9 Kb specific amplicon, antiphagocytic factor H binding protein, was amplified in the bacterial isolates. In this study, we reported an outbreak of canine hemorrhagic bronchopneumonia caused by S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus in an animal shelter in Yangju, Korea.
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