Diagnostic Exercise 5

Case 4 (continued)


This ox has changed color as you can perceive. It also has a cloudy cornea or something.

If we were able to determine the nature of the eye lesions here and decided that the animal had an ophthalmitis characterized by floating exudate in the anterior chamber and maybe some corneal opacity, we would place at the top of our list, based on this photograph and the following two photographs, what disease?

Okay, having done that, we should probably take a look at the kidney, which is illustrated in the these two photographs, and in each we can make observations that are representative of the same process.

What are they?

All right, now that we know what is wrong with this animal, we can make an extremely strong presumptive diagnosis of malignant catarrhal fever.

However, someone wants confirmation so we are going to provide a lab with a set of tissues for examination.

What do you expect them to find?

In other words, what is a significant histomorphologic feature of malignant catarrhal fever?