Table 2.
Overview of detailed causes of death or emergency removals associated with the primary disease diagnosed in chamois in Slovenia, 2000–2020.
| Cause of Death/Emergency Removal | Male | Female | Kids and Juveniles (below 1 Year) | Juveniles (1–2 Years Old) |
Adults (over 2 Years) |
Total | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-infectious diseases | |||||||
| Metabolic disorder |
- | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 0.7 |
| Neoplasia | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | |
| Trauma | 18 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 28 | 9.8 |
| Winter starvation | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0.3 |
| Total | 19 | 15 | 1 | 8 | 25 | 34 | 11.8 |
| Infectious diseases |
|||||||
| Bacterial | |||||||
| Serratia marcescens | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 0.7 |
|
Pseudomonas
aeruginosa |
1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Mycoplasma spp. | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 0.7 |
| Bibersteinia trehalosi | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |
|
Staphylococcus
aureus |
1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 0.3 | |
|
Mannheimia
granulomatis |
- | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 0.3 |
| Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1.4 |
| Yersinia pseudotuberculosis | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Mixed bacterial flora | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Viral | |||||||
| Contagious ecthyma (PCR) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2.8 |
| Contagious ecthyma (only histological) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| Concomitant infections (bacteria/parasite) |
8 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 3.2 | ||
| Parasitic | |||||||
| Sarcoptes scabiei | 88 | 33 | 6 | 26 | 89 | 121 | 42.6 |
|
Haemonchus
contortus |
3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1.4 |
| Protostrongylidae | 14 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 27 | 9.5 |
| Chabertia ovina | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1.4 |
| Multiple endoparasitism |
24 | 20 | 5 | 22 | 17 | 44 | 15.1 |
| Total | 152 | 81 | 18 | 68 | 147 | 233 | 82.2 |
| Undetermined cause | 11 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 6 | |
| Total | 182 | 102 | 19 | 78 | 187 | 284 | 100 |