Post-mortem diagnosis
Post-mortem examination of animals with the macroscopic observation of characteristic tissue lesions on digestive, respiratory, and lymphoid organs will confirm the provisional clinical diagnosis.
Diagnosis will only be definitive following the laboratory examination of samples drawn from living animals (blood samples, swabs of nasal and ocular secretions, scraping of gingival mucosa) and dead animals (tissue fragments from lungs, intestines, lymph nodes and spleen) to discover the direct or indirect presence of the virus.
