Passive disease surveillance of Alpine chamois (Rupicapra r. rupicapra) in Slovenia between 2000 and 2020

Vengušt, Gorazd (author), Kuhar, Urška (author), Jerina, Klemen (author), Švara, Tanja (author), Gombač, Mitja (author), Bandelj, Petra (author), Žele-Vengušt, Diana (author)

In this paper, we provide an overview of the causes of death of Alpine chamois (Rupicapra r. rupicapra) diagnosed in the national passive health surveillance of chamois in Slovenia. From 2000 to 2020, 284 free-ranging chamois provided by hunters were necropsied at the Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Depending on the results of complete necropsy, histopathological, bacteriological, parasitological, and virological examinations, a descriptive data analysis was performed. The most common causes of death in chamois were infectious diseases (82.2%), followed by non-infectious diseases (11.8%). Of all the causes of death, parasitic infections accounted for 70.3%, trauma for 9.7%, and bacterial infections for 9.3% of all cases. Less common diseases were viral infections, neoplasms, winter starvation, and metabolic disorders.

• Language: English
• Keywords: disease monitoring, post-mortem examination, infectious diseases, non-infectious diseases, chamois, autopsy, communicable diseases, noncommunicable diseases, Rupicapra
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: VF - Veterinary Faculty; BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 12 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 12, iss. 9, art. 1119
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-136407
• UDC: 616:579:636.09
• ISSN on article: 2076-2615
• DOI: 10.3390/ani12091119
• COBISS.SI-ID: 106163971
• Publication date in RUL: 29.04.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Animals
• Shortened title: Animals
• Publisher: MDPI AG
• ISSN: 2076-2615
• COBISS.SI-ID: 519120409

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