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
Pneumonias of Ungulata are well known to pathology and offer in
causation and microscopy little that is peculiar. It might be emphasized
however that the gross appearance of the bronchocatarrhal variety
closely simulates that of lobar pneumonia, therefore to be called a
pseudolobar form, in that extension to various parts of a lobe seems to
occur. Moreover in the bronchitic varieties associated with enteritis,
with or without infectious foci in the pharynx or larynx, there may be
two or even three stages of the pneumonitic process in one lung or lobe.
It seems that this pseudolobar appearance occurs definitely more often
in ungulates than in the other orders.
[Illustration:
FIG. 8.—NORMAL AVIAN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ALVEOLI. NOTE THE DELICACY
OF THE SEPTAL PROLONGATIONS THAT BOUND THE PRIMARY ALVEOLI, ALL OF
WHICH ARE WIDELY OPEN.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 9.—EARLY BRONCHOPNEUMONIA OF SUPERFICIAL ORIGIN. NOTE SOME LITTLE
EXUDATE IN SECONDARY ALVEOLUS. WIDE SWOLLEN SEPTA AND BOTH ALVEOLI
REDUCED IN SIZE.
]
Marsupialia offer two rather easily grouped classes of bronchopneumonia—
one associated with enteritis and one secondary to “Kangaroo disease” of
the jaw; they differ in microscopy correspondingly. The simple
bronchitic and peribronchitic infiltrate and superficial exudate
occurring with enteritis or with a general infection is relatively
diffuse, giving in some instances the impression of an interstitial
process and showing notably swollen septa; there may be fibrin but this
is exceptional and scanty. When mycosis of the jaw has been the origin
or occasion of the infection the picture is that of frank aspiration
pneumonia, therefore more like a septic infarct. However the amount of
fibrin is sometimes very great and whole alveoli will be filled with it,
perhaps accompanied by red cells, polynuclears and epithelia. Epithelial
cells however play a small part in the minute anatomy. Hemorrhage and
edema are prominent but true abscess formation and gangrene are not.
Possibly the animals die too soon for the latter to develop.
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