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Bovine feedlots are intensive production systems of significant importance in Mexico. The present study describes the presence of bovine virus diarrhea (BVD) causing subacute to chronic lesions in feedlot cattle, associated with other pathologies. Animals included in this study were discarded after they received therapy several times due to chronic pneumonia, or anaplamosis. Bovine virus diarrhea antigen was identified by immunohistochemistry in small intestine and myocardium in six cases of chronic suppurative bronchopneumonia with extensive areas of casseous necrotic bronchiectasis, previously diagnosed as Mycoplasma bovis pneumonias (retrospective group, n = 6). Furthermore, based on characteristic histopathologic lesions other nine cases were included (prospective group, n = 9). Bovine virus diarrhea antigen was recognized in two animals with pneumonic lesions, including a case with fibrinous bronchopneumonia as well as suggestive lesions of infectious bovine rinotracheitis (1/9), and another one with suppurative bronchopneumonia and myocarditis suggestive of Histophilus somni (1/9). In addition, one positive case was associated to anaplasmosis (1/9). Other two positive cases showed a conspicuous fibrinous peritonitis (2/9). The rest of the animals in this group resulted negative (4/9). Histopathological characteristics of the lesions and their association with the antigen in situ confirm the presence of BVD. This presentation is compatible with the acute infection syndrome. This is the first report of BVD infection and concomitant pathologies in feedlot cattle in Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se presentan los antecedentes, las manifestaciones clínicas, los hallazgos patológicos e histopatológicos, así como los resultados de los estudios complementarios de tres animales representativos de un problema de mortalidad en ganado de carne en un rancho localizado en el municipio de Aldama, Tamaulipas, durante el primer trimestre de 2008. El diagnóstico presuntivo en dos casos fue babesiosis y en el otro fue rabia. La zona es considerada endémica para ambas enfermedades. Los resultados demostraron que el problema primordial fue rabia (3/3); sin embargo, en dos de ellos (2/3) también se registró la presencia de Babesia bovis. En zonas endémicas, la presencia de ambas enfermedades, rabia paralítica bovina y babesiosis ocurre simultáneamente haciendo difícil el diagnóstico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

History of diseases, clinical manifestations, pathologic and histopathological findings, as well as the results of complementary studies of three animals considered representatives of an outbreak of mortality in beef cattle in a ranch located in Aldama, Tamaulipas, during the first trimester of the 2008 are presented. Babesiosis and paralytic rabies were the presumptive diagnosis in two cases. Both diseases are considered enzootic in this area. Laboratory studies demonstrated that rabies was the main problem (3/3); however, in two of them (2/3) also Babesia bovis was recognized. In enzootic areas, the presence of both diseases, bovine paralytic rabies and babesiosis, occurs simultaneously making diagnosis difficult. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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