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Aleutian Disease in Two Domestic Striped Skunks ( Mephitis mephitis)

Department of Pathology (KEP, KSL) and Athens Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (CAB), College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Animal Industry Division, Ohio Department of Agriculture, Reynoldsburg, OH (JRH, CFS)

Abstract

This report describes the use of polymerase chain reaction and DNA in situ hybridization to diagnose Aleutian mink disease parvovirus DNA in various tissue specimens from 2 companion striped skunks. Clinical, laboratory, and microscopic findings also support a clinical diagnosis of Aleutian disease in these mink.

Key words: Aleutian disease; Aleutian mink disease virus; DNA in situ hybridization; parvovirus; polymerase chain reaction; striped skunk ( Mephitis mephitis).

Request reprints from Dr. Kenneth S. Latimer , Department of University Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, 501 D.W. Brooks Drive, Athens, GA 30605. E-mail: latimer{at}vet.uga.edu.