FLACCID TRUNK PARALYSIS IN FREE-RANGING ELEPHANTS (LOXODONTA-AFRICANA) IN ZIMBABWE

Authors
KOCK ND GOEDEGEBUURE SA LANE EP LUCKE V TYRRELL D KOCK MD
Citation
Nd. Kock et al., FLACCID TRUNK PARALYSIS IN FREE-RANGING ELEPHANTS (LOXODONTA-AFRICANA) IN ZIMBABWE, Journal of wildlife diseases, 30(3), 1994, pp. 432-435
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Veterinary Sciences
Journal title
Journal of wildlife diseases → ACNP
ISSN journal
00903558
Volume
30
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
432 - 435
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-3558(1994)30:3<432:FTPIFE>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
An epizootic of flaccid trunk paralysis began in free-ranging Zimbabwe an elephants (Loxodonta africana) on the southern shore of Lake Kariba in 1989. It involved a selective neuropathy of peripheral nerves supp lying the trunk, with axon and myelin degeneration, muscle atrophy, co mpensatory hypertrophy, and fine endomyseal fibrosis, without inflamma tory changes.