Image Database: Rinderpest

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Bovine, oral mucosa. There are numerous small gingival erosions.
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View Larger Image		 Photo #: RP_002
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Bovine, oral mucosa. There are numerous coalescing erosions on the ventrolateral lingual mucosa.
Credit: PIADC
   

View Larger Image		 Photo #: RP_003
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Bovine, oral mucosa. There is severe diffuse necrosis/coalescing ulceration of the dental pad; mandibular mucosa contains smaller erosions.
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View Larger Image		 Photo #: RP_004
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Bovine, gingiva. There are a few small erosions.
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View Larger Image		 Photo #: RP_005
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Bovine, oral mucosa. There are numerous erosions on and between the buccal papillae.
Credit: PIADC
   

View Larger Image		 Photo #: RP_006
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Bovine, hard palate. The mucosa contains many small, coalescing, pale to dark red erosions or foci of necrosis.
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View Larger Image		 Photo #: RP_007
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Bovine, hard palate. Palate erosion.
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View Larger Image		 Photo #: RP_008
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Bovine, trachea. The mucosa is hyperemic and covered by abundant mucopurulent exudate.
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View Larger Image		 Photo #: RP_009
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Bovine, ileum. Peyer's patches are depressed and covered by fibrinonecrotic exudate.
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View Larger Image		 Photo #: RP_010
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Bovine, colon. There are many petechiae on the crests of the mucosal folds, and there are several small blood clots on the mucosal surface.
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View Larger Image		 Photo #: RP_011
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Bovine, ileum. The mucosa is hemorrhagic and edematous, and the Peyer's patch is depressed (necrosis).
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View Larger Image		 Photo #: RP_012
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Bovine, colon. The mucosa is edematous and contains many small hemorrhages and shallow erosions.
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View Larger Image		 Photo #: RP_013
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Bovine, colon. The mucosa contains multiple longitudinal linear hemorrhages.
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These images were annotated by Dr. Steve Sorden and funding was provided by a USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant in collaboration with the Iowa State University Department of Veterinary Pathology, Center for Food Security and Public Health, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and Plum Island Animal Disease Center.