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
Primates present a definite group of variations from the other orders,
notably in having four clear cases of lobar fibrinous pneumonia, and in
certain histological findings. In reference to the lobar cases, a review
of their history does not indicate that any might have been surely
diagnosed by their symptoms, and only possibly by signs in one case
during the stage of red hepatization; unfortunately no temperature
records are at hand. In one case it was possible to see a group of
alveoli with the fibrin collected in a strand which, according to
classical description, passes through the septum to the adjoining
alveolus.
There were two cases, a Chimpanzee (_Pan niger_) and a Galago (_Galago
maholi_) with a microscopical picture suggestive of those we met in the
influenza epidemic, and indeed the lung of the former resembles grossly
the lung of influenza pneumonia. The spotty areas of watery purple color
correspond under magnification to celluloedematous semisolid sections
showing a sanguineous exudate, few polynuclear cells and many swollen
epithelia. The microscopic picture of the bronchocatarrhal pneumonias
shows conspicuously thickened septa decidedly wider than one is
accustomed to see in human cases and apparently due more to round cell
infiltration than to congestion or polynuclear increase.
Bronchopneumonia or capillary bronchitis with zones of cellular edema in
the vicinity is a rather usual picture in the deaths from degenerative
bone disease. It cannot be said that there is anything very peculiar
about it, although a frequent note met in the autopsies describes spotty
areas of hemorrhage and nearby atelectasis.
The case of lobar pneumonia found in a ring tailed lemur (_Lemur catta_)
showed very delicate fibrinous reticulum and relatively few cells in the
exudate, a picture apparently due in part to beginning resolution since
the whole upper left lobe was in a stage of gray hepatization.
The peculiarity of the Carnivora seems to lie in the reaction of the
epithelia, these cells being quite large, swollen and occasionally much
vacuolated. Such a picture was most pronounced in the terminal
bronchitic pneumonias in cases which might be called distemper. Many
instances of pseudolobar catarrhal or bronchopneumonia are recorded but
we also observed the fibrinous lobar form at the stage of red
hepatization in a Texas skunk (_Mephitis mesomelas_). Concerning the
orders Rodentia and Edentata no especial notes seem necessary for their
inflammatory reactions are essentially like the others in that
epithelial cells are much swollen and prominent.
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