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Abstract

This study describes the clinical signs, postmortem lesions and histopathological findings in chinkara deer died during an outbreak of enterotoxaemia. The study included 7 chinkara deer. During the outbreak, 5 chinkara deer died without clinical signs while 2 chinkara deer showed clinical signs before death. Clinical signs including greenish watery diarrhea, chocolate colored urine, herding in a corner with head down, fever, anorexia and opisthotonos. After death of these 7 deer, necropsy performed and observed soft and swollen kidneys, straw color fluid in abdominal cavity, edematous and congested lungs, hydrothorax, hydropericardium, hemorrhages and ballooning of small and large intestine and watery contents in the small intestine. In per-acute cases multifocal petechial hemorrhages on jejunal mucosa and myocardium were frequently observed. The histologic changes were perivascular cuffing in lungs and proteinaceous fluid in alveoli, pulmonary edema and hemorrhagic enteritis. Disruption of renal tubular epithelial cells, necrosis and congestion observed in histopathological section of kidneys. Affected deer was treated with different drugs and supplements but unfortunately prognosis was death. Enterotoxaemia is more fatal in young deer than adult. On the basis of this study we found that enterotoxaemia clinical signs, postmortem lesions and histopathological changes in deer are same as other animals such as sheep and goats.