SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK1

ELIZABETH S. WILLIAMS; STUART YOUNG

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-18.4.465

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1 October 1982 SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK

ELIZABETH S. WILLIAMS, STUART YOUNG

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 18(4):465-471 (1982). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-18.4.465

Abstract

A disease with striking clinical and pathologic similarities to the spongiform encephalopathies is described in six Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) maintained in wildlife facilities in Colorado and Wyoming. Clinical signs included behavioral alterations and progressive weight loss over a period of weeks or months. Consistent microscopic lesions were limited to the central nervous system and characterized by widespread spongiform transformation of the neuropil, intracytoplasmic vacuoles in neuronal perikaryons, and astrocytic hypertrophy and hyperplasia.

WILLIAMS and YOUNG: SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK1

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ELIZABETH S. WILLIAMS and STUART YOUNG "SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 18(4), 465-471, (1 October 1982). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-18.4.465

Received: 26 April 1982; Published: 1 October 1982

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