ABSTRACT
This study presents a case of nasal aspergillosis in a 17-days old calf (German Fleckvieh): it had been admitted moribund to the Clinic for Ruminants of the University of Munich, and died after a short time. Pathologically, the calf was diagnosed with purulent-necrotizing rhinitis, necrotizing pneumonia, and diphtheroid-necrotizing abomasitis. Histologically, fungal elements were found in all the localizations mentioned before, and mycologically, Aspergillus fumigatus was cultured from nasal cavity. Pathogenesis is discussed.
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Abomasum , Aspergillosis/veterinary , Aspergillus fumigatus/isolation & purification , Cattle Diseases/microbiology , Rhinitis/veterinary , Stomach Diseases/veterinary , Abomasum/microbiology , Abomasum/pathology , Animals , Animals, Newborn , Aspergillosis/diagnosis , Aspergillosis/microbiology , Cattle , Cattle Diseases/diagnosis , Fatal Outcome , Lung/microbiology , Lung/pathology , Male , Nasal Cavity/microbiology , Nasal Cavity/pathology , Pulmonary Aspergillosis/diagnosis , Pulmonary Aspergillosis/microbiology , Pulmonary Aspergillosis/veterinary , Rhinitis/diagnosis , Rhinitis/microbiology , Stomach Diseases/diagnosis , Stomach Diseases/microbiologyABSTRACT
By the mid 1980s, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) emerged in the United Kingdom (UK) and reached its peak in the early 1990s with up to 37,000 cases. In the year 2000, BSE was diagnosed for the first time for a cow born in Germany. Since then, 413 cases of BSE have been detected. About 10 years after the first BSE cases were detected, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), was described in the UK. Legal measures for protection from BSE are described. The number of cases of vCJD and the development of the BSE situation in Germany and Bavaria until 2009 are presented.
