SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY IN A HERD OF GREATER KUDU (TRAGELAPHUS-STREPSICEROS) - EPIDEMIOLOGIC OBSERVATIONS

Authors
KIRKWOOD JK CUNNINGHAM AA WELLS GAH WILESMITH JW BARNETT JEF
Citation
Jk. Kirkwood et al., SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY IN A HERD OF GREATER KUDU (TRAGELAPHUS-STREPSICEROS) - EPIDEMIOLOGIC OBSERVATIONS, Veterinary record, 133(15), 1993, pp. 360-364
Citations number
45
Categorie Soggetti
Veterinary Sciences
Journal title
Veterinary record → ACNP
ISSN journal
00424900
Volume
133
Issue
15
Year of publication
1993
Pages
360 - 364
Database
ISI
SICI code
0042-4900(1993)133:15<360:SEIAHO>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
A small herd of greater kudu, derived from three individuals, has been maintained at the Zoological Society of London since 1970. Spongiform encephalopathy has been diagnosed in five out of eight of the animals born in this herd since 1987. With the possible exception of the firs t confirmed case, none of these is thought to have been exposed to fee ds containing ruminant-derived protein. The pattern of incidence sugge sts that greater kudu are very susceptible to the disease and that nat ural lateral transmission may have occurred among them.