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Veterinary Pathology, Vol 34, Issue 4 312-322, Copyright © 1997 by American College of Veterinary Pathologists

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Lesions of experimental equine morbillivirus pneumonia in horses

P. T. Hooper, P. J. Ketterer, A. D. Hyatt and G. M. Russell
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong. peterh@aahl.dah.csiro.gov.au

Laboratory examinations of equine morbillivirus included experimental reproductions of the disease caused by the virus by transmission of mixed lung and spleen taken from two field equine cases into two horses and by inoculating tissue culture virus into a further two horses. The most distinctive gross lesions of the diseases that developed in three of the horses was that of pulmonary edema characterized by gelatinous distension of subpleural lymphatics. Histologically, the lesions in the lungs were those of serofibrinous alveolar edema, alveolar macrophages, hemorrhage, thrombosis of capillaries, and syncytial cells. Clearly defined vascular lesions in three horses that became clinically affected within 8 days of inoculation of virus included intramural hemorrhage, edema, and necrosis and syncytial cells in the endothelium of pulmonary vessels (approximately 40-70 microm in diameter). Vascular lesions accompanied by parenchymal degeneration were also seen in the heart, kidney, brain, spleen, lymph node, and stomach. A fourth horse, which survived for 12 days, had detectable lesions only in the lungs, which were more chronic than those in the other three horses, a greater degree of cellular infiltration, and fewer well-defined vascular lesions. Sections stained by an indirect immunocytochemical method showed equine morbillivirus antigen was present in the vascular lesions and along alveolar walls. When endothelial cells were examined by electron microscope, cytoplasmic virus inclusion bodies containing filamentous structures were seen that reacted to an immunogold test to equine morbillivirus antigen. The presence of the syncytia in the small blood vessels in the lungs and other organs was interpreted as an important characteristic of the disease and consistent with a reaction to a morbillivirus.


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