Disease in captive wild mammals and birds : $b incidence, description, comparisonFox, Herbert
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Disease in captive wild mammals and birds : $b incidence, description, comparison
Fox, Herbert
Veterinary medicine
Passeres │ 4│ .29│ 7│ .5│ 2│ .16
Picariæ │ │ │ │ │ │
Striges │ │ │ │ │ │
Psittaci │ 4│ .58│ │ │ │
Accipitres │ 1│ .5│ │ │ │
Columbæ │ │ │ │ │ │
Galli │ │ │ 1│ .3│ │
Hemipodii │ │ │ │ │ │
Fulicariæ │ │ │ │ │ │
Alectorides │ │ │ │ │ │
Limicolæ │ │ │ │ │ │
Gaviæ │ │ │ │ │ │
Impennes │ │ │ │ │ │
Steganopodes│ │ │ │ │ │
Herodiones │ 1│ 1.│ │ │ 1│ 1.
Odontoglossæ│ │ │ │ │ │
Palamedes │ │ │ │ │ │
Anseres │ 2│ .67│ 3│ 1.│ │
Struthiones │ 1│ _3.3_│ │ │ │
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For meaning of italics see footnote Table 1.
A review of the active verminous lesions of the bronchi and the
pneumonitis to which parasites lead, shows again the highest number
among the Carnivora, with negligible percentages among the Aves. The
forms concerned are, when determined, ascarides, strongylus, hepaticola,
fasciolopsis, cytoleichus, pneumonyssus and paragonimus; these will be
discussed later. The lesions in the bronchi are mucocatarrhal or
hypertrophic; occasionally actual ulcerations are seen. What is more
important however is the peribronchitis leading to interstitial
pneumonitis and to bronchiectasis of the smaller bronchi, or to areas of
atelectasis by total occlusion of some small air passage. This pathology
is fairly well recognized among veterinary pathologists but there are
two points which seem worthy of special emphasis, namely, the relative
mildness of the changes in the larger bronchi and the importance of the
worms as causes of pneumonia. In regard to the first it can be pointed
out that the trachea and its branches need not be altered at all while
the middle sized bronchi present a mottling of small recent congestion
with pigmentations from old hemorrhages, together with slight
unevennesses of the surface. Small bronchi on the other hand are the
seat of ulcerative internal processes and quite marked peribronchitis,
as indicated by round and connected tissue nuclei or perhaps polynuclear
increase under active acute inflammation; it is in the latter case that
acute pneumonitis is present.
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