Özet:

An Anatolian wild goat found exhausted by a shepherd in Arpalık locality of Aladağlar Wildlife Development area in Yahyalı district of Kayseri province was presented in this case. A 7-8 year-old female wild goat was brought to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Research and Application Hospital of Erciyes University by the officials of the Nature Conservation and National Parks Directorate. In the first clinical examination, there was no apparent finding except loss of appetite and stagnation. Heart, respiratory, body temperature and hematological values were within normal limits. In the transabdominal ultrasonographic examination, it was determined that the goat was about 4 months pregnant and carried a single fetus with a heartbeat. The goat was cared for, fed and supportive treatments for 16 days in the hospital. During the hospitalization period; central nervous system findings, with stagnation and anorexia; symptoms such as keeping the head against the wall, standing continuously, ventroflexion of the head, pausing for a while during chewing, slight staggering while walking, partial blindness in both eyes, turning to the left side and holding the head on the left side were observed. Despite supportive treatment, anorexia occurred during the last three days, death occurred following continuous sleep, marked edema in the head, and a mucous nasal discharge. In the necropsy, multiple white scolices were seen in the middle of the right and left cerebral hemispheres, in a single cyst sac with abundant clear fluid, slightly shifted to the left. No pathological finding was observed in vital organs, and a 4.5-month-old male dead fetus (owing to the death of the mother) was found. Coenurosis was seen for the first time in a wild goat that got pregnant outside the breeding season, showing clinical features of the chronic form of C. cerebralis and living in the wildlife area.