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Neonatal mice suffer high mortality. They become dehydrated with soiling of the perineum with yellow, diarrheic feces. Their stomachs are usually empty and intestines are thin-walled, flaccid, and contain watery yellow digesta and gas. Juvenile mice are less severely affected, but are often runted with pot bellies and oily-appearing hair. Careful examination of weaning-age or adult mice may reveal dark, sticky feces and opaque, thickened segments of bowel. Livers, if affected, have few to many small pale or hemorrhagic foci (see p. 134, this volume) (Barthold 1985; Barthold and Smith 1984; Barthold et al. 1982; Hierholzer et al. 1979; Ishida and Fujiwara 1979; Ishida et al. 1978; Kraft 1962, 1966).
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Barthold, S.W. (1985). Mouse Hepatitis Virus Infection, Intestine, Mouse. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Digestive System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96910-2_55
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