Prvi dokazani slučaj virusa štenećaka kod mladunčeta leoparda (Panthera pardus) u TamilNaduu u Indiji
A four-month female leopard cub (Panthera pardus), rescued from a residential area in Kaliyal, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India with exhibited sign of dullness, convulsions, seizures, and profuse salivation was screened for infectious disease conditions and confirmed as canine distemper (CD) by conventional PCR method. To our best knowledge this was the first documented case of CD in a leopard in Tamil Nadu, India and this report focused on the integrative treatment with allopathic and siddha medicine for the disease condition.
Authors
- Sundaram Muthukrishnan
- M. Ranjithkumar
- Nakulan Valsala Rajesh
- Srinivasan Jaisree
- Elangovan Tamileniyan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2459-9847)
- Radhakrishnan Bhuvaneshwari Vishnurahav (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1962-4238)
- Rajagopalan Chandrasekaran Sundararajan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0843-1310)
- Shunmugavel Manoharan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7520-8281)
- Elayaraman Madhesh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2137-9016)
- Panneerselvam Jayashree (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1888-8709)
Institutions
- Universidade Gregório Semedo (AO)
- Veterinary Research Institute (CZ)
- Department of Animal Health (VN)
- Forest Research (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Croatian veterinary journal
- Published
- 2026-05-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.46419/cvj.57.4.9
- Primary Topic
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00