Table 1. Major histologic lesions in animals infected with peste des petits ruminants and concurrent diseases, Mongolia, 2016–2017*.

Lesion or disease	Animal ID nos.
	Mongolian saiga								Goitered gazelle			Ibex
	4	5, 8†	9	10	11	17	13, 15†		18	25		20
PPRV-specific lesions
Oro/pharyngeal mucosa: erosion, epithelial necrosis, multifocal, acute (stomatitis, necrotizing)	+++, S+	+++, S+	+, S+	–	–	+++, S+, I+ (IN)	–		+, S+	NE		NE
Liver: degeneration and necrosis, hepatocytes, multifocal, random, acute (hepatitis, necrotizing)	NE	NE	++, S+, I+++ (IC and IN)	++	+	++	NE		++, S+, I+ (IN)	++, S+, I+ (IN>IC)		NE
Liver: degeneration and necrosis, biliary epithelium, bile ductules, multifocal, acute	NE	NE	+, I++ (IC>IN)	–	–	–	NE		+	++ I+ (IN>IC)		NE
Liver: cholestasis, canalicular, acute	NE	NE	+	+	–	–	NE		–	–		NE
Liver: hyperplasia, bile ductules, chronic	NE	NE	+	++	–	–	NE		–	–		NE
Lung: degeneration and necrosis, bronchiolar epithelium, multifocal, acute	NE	NE	+, S+, I+(IN and IC)	–	–	–	NE		–	++ S+ I++ (IN and IC)		NE
Intestine: necrosis, crypt epithelium, multifocal, acute	NE	NE	+, I+ (IC>IN)	–/PMA	–	–/PMA	NE		–/PMA	–/PMA		NE
Concurrent diseases	NA	NA	NA	NA	Proliferative stomatitis, parapoxvirus suspected	NA	NA		NA	Bacterial sepsis with bacteremia		NA

*I, presence of viral inclusion bodies; IC, intracytoplasmic inclusion; ID, identification; IN, intranuclear inclusion; NA, not applicable; NE, not examined; PMA, assessment hindered by postmortem autolysis; S, presence of syncytia; +, mildly severe; ++, moderately severe; +++, severe; –, lesion not found.
†Tissue samples pooled.