This project will involve the retrospective analysis of stored serum and tissue samples from deer previously submitted to the DWHC for post-mortem investigation, for the presence of infection with the bacterial cause of Q-fever, Coxiella burnetti.
In February 2011 an adult female hare which was in poor condition and had lost its flight reflex was euthanised and submitted to the DWHC for post-mortem investigation. The hare died from septicemia (blood poisoning) secondary to the severe, systemic infection with Y. pseudotuberculosis.
Researchers at the Dutch Wildlife Health Centre (DWHC) at the University of Utrecht Vet School report the first identified case of ranavirus in wild frogs in the Netherlands.
In September 2010, ranavirus spp. infection was responsible for mass die-offs amongst species of green frogs (Pelophylax spp.) and smooth newts in the Dwingelderveld National Park. This was the first identified case of ranavirus in the Netherlands to be reported in the Read more
This project will assess the health status of deer killed on the roads in Utrecht in 2010 and submitted to the DWHC for post-mortem investigation in order to shed light on a possible cause for the increase in collisions.
This project involves the set-up of a national sampling network in order to ascertain the prevalence of infection with epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus in wild deer in the Netherlands.
A male green finch (Carduelis chloris) was seen to be sitting with ruffled feathers and slime on its beak shortly before dying and being submitted to the DWHC for post-mortem investigation.
An unusual tumor (anaplastic carcinoma) was found in the nasal cavity of a deer (Capreolus capreolus) submitted to the DWHC for post-mortem investigation.
