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
Muscles atrophic, greenish black over abdomen. Fat absent. Lung is
blotched by darker red markings where parenchyma contains distinct
excess of frothy pink watery fluid. No fluid or adhesions in
pericardium. Heart is contracted, and muscle is pale yellow and firm.
The only abnormality consists of slight yellowing of musculature. The
abdomen shows great omentum firmly adherent to fundus of bladder. No
fluid or other adhesions in abdomen. The liver is normal in size,
smooth in surface and has sharp edges, is friable and bright orange
yellow. The section surface is glistening, smooth and dry. Organ is
poor in blood content, greasy and breaks easily. Bladder is large,
contents fluid green bile; duct patulous. Spleen normal. Kidney is
small and smooth, diminished in bulk, normal location, smooth surface,
and pale yellowish gray, consistency, soft, flabby. Ureters normal.
Mouth and teeth normal. Stomach contains scanty brown fluid. Duodenum—
Mucosa bile-stained, contained a solitary nematode worm. In its lower
portion it becomes filled with a blackish red fluid, and its mucosa
becomes studded by heavily outlined punctate hemorrhages whose
positions are best seen through serosa. Jejunum similar in condition
to duodenum and contains four small nematode worms. At one point,
i.e., where the worm is located at beginning of ileum the blood
staining of mucosa is strictly in neighborhood of the worm.
Capillaries nowhere congested. Ileum contains slight amount of
brownish black material, mucosa normal. Large intestine and rectum
normal. Pancreas normal. Lymphatics normal. This is a case of death by
anemia as result of bites of hookworms. There were certainly more than
four worms present antemortem since no males were found, and this may
be explained by a possible diarrhœa which has flushed them out. This
idea is borne out by empty condition of gastrointestinal tract. Animal
Parasites—Uncinaria canina. The four small nematode worms above
mentioned conform in all respects to the given anatomical points of
uncinaria. All four specimens are perfectly formed females. The
location of the hooks was easily determined and established as being
in the most dorsal portion of buccal cavity, and as projecting forward
and ventrally in two groups of three each in same manner as described
heretofore in similar infestations in foxes. The large nematode worm
found in duodenum is, from its possession of three lips and its
general form, an ascaris. The mustache, however, which is so commonly
seen in ascaris worms from this region is absent. Postmortem blood of
heart shows red cells granulated and almost worthless for histological
study. Nucleated reds, however, are absent but other points valuable
in settling the question of anemia cannot be determined.
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