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==Signalment==
 
==Signalment==
Domestic hosts include dogs, cats and pigs and wild hosts include rabbits, rats, ferral cats and dogs and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peccary/ Peccary's].  The '''virus only shows clinical signs in pigs''' but antibodies can be detected in rabbits, rats, dogs and cats.  
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Domestic hosts include dogs, cats and pigs and wild hosts include rabbits, rats, ferral cats and dogs and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peccary Peccary's].  The '''virus only shows clinical signs in pigs''' but antibodies can be detected in rabbits, rats, dogs and cats.
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The disease affects '''all age ranges of pigs''' and also causes '''reproductive disorder in the boar'''.
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The disease affects '''all age ranges of pigs''' and also causes '''reproductive disorder in the boar'''.
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==Clinical Signs==
 
==Clinical Signs==
 
'''Generally''' pigs suffer from '''anorexia''', weight loss, '''reluctance to move''', dehydration, periorbital and conjunctival swelling (chemosis) and '''purulent/serous ocular discharge''' and '''corneal opacity'''.  The virus also causes neurological signs including tetraparesis, opisthotonus, dysmetria, proprioceptive disorders, '''tremors''', nystagmus   
 
'''Generally''' pigs suffer from '''anorexia''', weight loss, '''reluctance to move''', dehydration, periorbital and conjunctival swelling (chemosis) and '''purulent/serous ocular discharge''' and '''corneal opacity'''.  The virus also causes neurological signs including tetraparesis, opisthotonus, dysmetria, proprioceptive disorders, '''tremors''', nystagmus   
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