2015
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12326
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Congenital Jaundice in Bovine Aborted Foetuses: An Emerging Syndrome in Southern Belgium

Abstract: Summary Southern Belgium faces an unusual recent increase of icteric bovine aborted foetuses. In the necropsy room, the majority of foetuses presented jaundice and splenomegaly. Despite a wide range of analyses, no definitive cause of abortion has yet been established but some analysis results support the leptospirosis hypothesis. This first description of cases will help veterinary practitioners to recognize more cases and to conduct those to the laboratory for future investigations.

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“…Currently, the source of infection remains unknown and therefore complicates the usefulness of implementation of preventive measures. From the affected farms, only one case of bovine aborted foetus was identified in 95% of the farms with a maximum of three cases in one farm (Delooz et al., ). That allows hypothesizing that infection does not spread to the entire herd by other cattle that therefore do not appear to be potential maintenance hosts.…”
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“…Currently, the source of infection remains unknown and therefore complicates the usefulness of implementation of preventive measures. From the affected farms, only one case of bovine aborted foetus was identified in 95% of the farms with a maximum of three cases in one farm (Delooz et al., ). That allows hypothesizing that infection does not spread to the entire herd by other cattle that therefore do not appear to be potential maintenance hosts.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Since July 2014, the Belgian Walloon region faced an unexpected situation with a drastic increase of congenital jaundice in bovine aborted foetuses (Delooz et al., ). During the last 6 years, abortions associated with jaundice had been notified (Figure ) but the monthly incidence of cases remained stable.…”
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