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. 2025 Aug 15;2025:4818076. doi: 10.1155/tbed/4818076

Table 1.

Clinical and pathological features of natural, fatal CDV infections in free-ranging black-tufted marmosets.

NHP Clinical presentation and evolution Pathological features
Gross Histopathology
1 Lethargy and ataxia; died without treatment Skin: scabs around the nose and ulcers on the upper lip
Lungs: heavy and diffusely reddish
Spleen: severe enlargement
Skin: multifocal areas of erosion, ulceration, forming vesicles
Tongue: multifocal areas of erosion, forming vesicles, mild multifocal lymphoplasmacytic glossitis
Lungs: interstitial pneumonia and mild bronchiolar necrosis with syncytial cells
Spleen: white pulp necrosis
Inclusion bodies: hepatic bile ducts, gastric, tongue, skin, bronchiolar, gallbladder, renal pelvis, and urinary bladder epithelium

2 Stupor, amaurosis, seizures, ulcers, and vesicles on the facial skin and tongue, dying within 1 day despite treatment Skin: severe rashes, ulcers, and thickening of the nasal skin, periorbital area, and oral mucocutaneous junction
Tongue: erosion and white plaques on the ventral and dorsal surface
Lungs: heavy, firm, wet, partially collapsed with dark red mottled areas of predominately cranioventral consolidation
Spleen: severe enlargement
Skin: multifocal areas of erosion, ballooning degeneration
Tongue: multifocal areas of erosion, hyperkeratosis, mild multifocal lymphoplasmacytic glossitis, and ballooning degeneration
Lungs: suppurative bronchopneumonia, edema, interstitial pneumonia with syncytial cells, and bronchiolar necrosis.
Spleen: white pulp necrosis.
Inclusion bodies: hepatic bile ducts, renal pelvis, tongue, skin urinary bladder and mucocutaneous boundary epithelium

3 Lethargy; lesions on the facial skin and tongue similar to NHP 2, and died during clinical evaluation Skin: severe rashes, ulcers, and scabs on the nose, periorbital area, and oral mucocutaneous junction
Tongue: discrete multifocal erosion and white plaques on the ventral and dorsal surface
Lungs: heavy, firm, wet, partially collapsed with dark red mottled areas of predominately cranioventral consolidation
Spleen and submandibular lymph nodes: severe enlargement
Skin: multifocal areas of erosion, focally extensive ulcerative dermatitis, scabs, and hyperkeratosis
Mucocutaneous boundary: scabs, hyperkeratosis
Tongue: multifocal areas of erosion, hyperkeratosis, mild multifocal lymphoplasmacytic glossitis, and ballooning degeneration
Lungs: suppurative bronchopneumonia, interstitial pneumonia with syncytial cells, and bronchiolar necrosis
Heart: microabscess with myriad bacteria
Spleen: white pulp necrosis
Lymph nodes: lymphoid depletion and rare syncytial cells
Inclusion bodies: hepatic bile ducts, renal pelvis, urinary bladder, skin, mucocutaneous boundary, tongue bronchiolar and endometrial epithelium

4 Lethargy and ataxia; died without treatment Skin: severe rashes, ulcers, and scabs on the nose, periorbital area, and mouth mucocutaneous junction
Tongue: focally extensive erosion.
Lungs: heavy, firm, wet, partially collapsed with dark red mottled areas of predominately cranioventral consolidation Spleen: severe enlargement
Skin: multifocal areas of erosion, focally extensive ulcerative dermatitis, ballooning degeneration, hyperkeratosis
Mucocutaneous boundary: scabs, hyperkeratosis
Tongue: epidermal necrosis, hyperkeratosis, multifocal lymphoplasmacytic and neutrophilic glossitis, and ballooning degeneration
Lungs: suppurative bronchopneumonia, interstitial pneumonia with syncytial cells, and bronchiolar necrosis
Heart: suppurative myocarditis with myriad bacteria
Spleen: white pulp necrosis
Inclusion bodies: hepatic bile ducts, renal pelvis, urinary bladder skin, mucocutaneous boundary, tongue bronchiolar, granulosa cells and endometrial epithelium

5 Lethargy and facial skin lesions; died within 3 days without treatment Skin: rashes mainly around oral mucocutaneous junction.
Tongue: erosion and white plaques on the dorsal surface
Lungs: dark red mottled areas of predominately cranioventral consolidation
Spleen: severe enlargement
Skin and mucocutaneous boundary: multifocal areas of erosion, ulceration, pustules, scabs and ballooning degeneration
Tongue: multifocal areas of erosion, pustules, hyperkeratosis, mild multifocal lymphoplasmacytic glossitis and ballooning degeneration
Lungs: suppurative bronchopneumonia, edema with syncytial cells and bronchiolar necrosis
Spleen: white pulp necrosis
Inclusion bodies: hepatic bile ducts, renal pelvis, urinary bladder skin, mucocutaneous boundary, tongue bronchiolar and endometrial epithelium