Table 5.

Primary diagnosis of elk submissions^a to pathology laboratories by age group^b

Disease	Cases
Less than 30 days of agec
Enteritis/diarrhea	48
Septicemia	29
No diagnosis	28
Pneumonia	18
Still born	14
Emaciation	13
Trauma	10
Dystocia	7
Liver disease	7
Kidney disease	6
Omphalophlebitis	5
Cardiac disease	3
Enteritis, necrotic	3
Myopathy	3
Non viable neonate	3
Abomasitis	2
Other (23)	25
Total submissions	224
30 to 365 days of age
Pneumonia	20
No diagnosis	15
Trauma	13
Parasitism	10
Emaciation	9
Septicemia	7
Abscess	7
Enteritis/diarrhea	5
Meningitis	5
Johne’s	4
Grain overload	4
Encephalitis	3
Cardiac disease	2
Listeriosis	2
Coccidiosis	2
Copper deficiency	2
Other (27)	35
Total submissions	145
Older than 1 year of age
Trauma	77
No diagnosis	70
Pneumonia	35
Kidney disease	31
Emaciation	23
Abscess	19
Liver disease	16
Enteritis/diarrhea	14
Encephalitis	13
Grain overload	13
Neoplasia	12
Dystocia	9
Liver flukes	9
Peritonitis	9
Johne’s	8
Septicemia	8
Cardiac disease	7
Copper deficiency	7
Capture myopathy	6
Liver flukes	6
Arthritis	5
Locoweed poisoning	5
Other (37)	71
Total submissions	473

^a1990 to 2000

^bExcluding cases with unrecorded age (n = 206)

^cIncluding animals < 24 h old but not less than term fetuses (n = 29)