Volume 24, Number 9—September 2018
Dispatch
Fatal Tickborne Phlebovirus Infection in Captive Cheetahs, Japan
Table
Laboratory value | Normal (± SD)* | Cheetah 1, day 3† | Cheetah 2‡ |
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Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 6 | Day 7§ | ||||
Leukocytes/μL | 10,350 (3,500) | 1,700 | 12,500 | 10,700 | 6,900 | 3,900 | 4,800 | |
Erythrocytes, × 103 cells/μL | 684 (106) | 707 | 845 | 756 | 834 | 722 | 952 | |
Platelets, × 103/μL¶ | 349 (119) | 1 | 12.7 | 9.1 | 5.9 | 0.9 | 1.3 | |
Hemoglobin, g/L | 12.5 (1.9) | 13.9 | 16.7 | 15 | 15.7 | 14 | 18.3 | |
Hematocrit, % | 37.9 (5.8) | 38.4 | 58.6 | 43.1 | 47.4 | 39.5 | 54.4 | |
Mean cell volume, fL | 55.6 (5.5) | 54.3 | 69.3 | 57 | 56.8 | 54.7 | 57.1 | |
Aspartate aminotransferase, U/L | 52 (35) | 161 | 119 | 162 | 145 | 492 | 500 | |
Alanine aminotransferase, U/L | 98 (71) | 157 | 412 | 377 | 284 | 501 | 471 | |
Creatine phosphokinase, U/L | 296 (311) | 262 | 200 | 915 | 746 | >2,000 | >2,000 | |
Lactate dehydrogenase, U/L | 92 (87) | 273 | 203 | 574 | 174 | 684 | 906 | |
Total bilirubin, mg/dL | 0.3 (0.2) | 2.7 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 5.4 | 12.3 |
*Numbers are obtained from (12).
†After illness onset.
‡Day 1 was 20 days after cheetah 1 died.
§Blood was collected from the carcass.
¶Possible lower platelet counts due to blood collection using heparin.
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