1Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara, Guwahati-22, Assam, India
*Address for Correspondence S.M. Tamuli, Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara, Guwahati-22, Assam, India, E-mail: tamuli_sm@yahoo.com
Online published on 12 October, 2020.
A total of three adult stray dog carcasses from different localities of Guwahati metro city were submitted to the Department of Pathology, C.V.Sc., A.A.U. Khanapara, Guwahati-22, in the month of April to May,2019 for necropsy. Clinically the dogs prior to death exhibited restlessness, excitement, aggression, drooling of saliva, and have bitten other street dogs and humans. The disease was diagnosed by LFA, Mann's modified stain, DFA and pathomorphological studies. Grossly brain, liver, kidneys, heart, intestine and salivary glands were highly congested. The lungs showed haemorrhages in the apical lobes while the intestines revealed haemorrhagic enteritis. Histopathological examination of the brain revealed perivascular cuffing, neuronophagia, satellitosis, gliosis and presence of intracytoplasmic eosinophilic inclusion bodies i.e. Negri bodies in the neurons.
DFA, Negri bodies, LFA, Rabies
