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
Pneumonia as a clinical disease is a relatively uncommon, although quite
serious sporadic condition in animals. However accompanying the
specific, more or less epizoötic diseases such as influenza, distemper
and the choleras it may be a frequent and quite pronounced complicating
feature of the case. Pneumonia _per se_ has exacted a reasonable toll in
this Garden but unfortunately recognition being impracticable, diagnosis
and treatment have not progressed. Nor has it been practicable to group
our cases pathologically because of the lack of history and the
difficulty of making bacteriological observations at many autopsies.
Fortunately we have had practically no epizoötic pneumonias, an
experience shared with other gardens judging by their published reports.
Etiologically, and of course this applies to non-verminous, non-mycotic
and non-tuberculous cases, the pneumococcus has stood out prominently as
a cause with a few additional cases due to the streptococcus and the
Bact. aerogenes mucosum group; London reports four cases in monkeys due
to the Friedlander bacillus. Some time ago Doctor Weidman subjected our
pneumonias to an analysis and was able to show that there is no
parallelism between the seasonal incidence of pneumonia in man and
animals, rather indeed that the Garden is more apt to have a greater
number of cases in the summer, a sort of “closed season” for man. This I
am inclined to interpret as connected with the larger number of visitors
during that season. Doctor Weidman was further able to show that the
only real examples of lobar fibrinous pneumonia strictly comparable to
the human infection occurred in the Primates. I have uncovered one in a
lemur and one in a carnivore. The pneumococcus has been far and away the
greatest producer of our pneumonias, in two typed cases being of the IV
variety. There will be given below a summary of the pathological types
of pneumonia encountered, to be followed by some notes upon the
principal gross and minute anatomy in special orders. Table 9 will show
the numerical distribution of types among the orders. All the principal
mammalian orders are represented while the birds seem relatively less
susceptible to the disease and, except the Passeres, show a trifling
incidence.
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