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
Kidney.—Very mild swelling of tubular epithelium but no exudative
processes. Glomeruli show a few vacuoles but capsular space is
negative to pigment. Bone marrow (Femur) fairly cellular in
construction, but fat well mixed. Cellular areas well arranged,
active, most of cells are small members of the larger mononuclear
variety. Small lymphocytes abundantly represented. Most of the larger
cells are non-granular, with centrally placed nucleus. Megakaryocytes
fairly numerous, nuclei seem closely jammed into centre. No
recognizable certain nucleated red blood cells, moderately number
stippled cells, few adult red cells. Eosinophiles and basophiles quite
few. Pigment small quantity.
This is a case of primary anemia of moderate severity and short
duration, and probably of hemolytic character if one may judge by the
bone marrow, although excessive pigmentation of the liver and kidneys
was not found. Unfortunately the spleen was not minutely studied, nor
was the central nervous system investigated. Atrophy of the intestinal
tract did not exist.
Two cases occurred among the monkeys, but one example will answer, since
the two were essentially the same.
The case to be cited was that of a Japanese Macaque (Macacus
fuscatus). ♀ Young, weight three pounds two ounces, exhibited in the
Garden about four months, and apparently in good shape until two weeks
before death when it rapidly became emaciated.
DIAGNOSIS.—Aplastic anemia, chronic atrophic gastritis. Atrophy of
heart muscle, fibrosis of liver, slight local cloudy swelling of
liver. Perilobular diffuse nephritis (subcapsular type). Congestion of
spleen. Fibrillar fibrosis of spleen. Hemosiderin pigmentation of
spleen. Local amyloid infiltration of spleen. Calcareous infiltration
in medulla of adrenal.
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