A seven-year-old male elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) was euthanized and necropsied after having a 3-week history of body weight loss, emaciation, excessive salivation, teeth grinding, fever, anorexia, and respiratory distress. The elk was imported into Korea from Canada on March 9, 1997. Gross pathologic findings were restricted to a diffuse fibrinous pneumonia. Microscopic lesions included mild ...

IN THIS discussion we are concerned with the treatment of patients who have symptoms of bronchiectasis, and who, upon lung mapping, show dilatations of the bronchial tree. Cough and expectoration are the universal symptoms and it is for relief of these that the bronchiectatic patient most often presents himself. Other symptoms, such as hemoptysis, fever, chills, sweats, fetor, emaciation, dyspn...

1. Certain anaerobically produced autolysates of pneumococcus injected intravenously kill mice in 0.1 to 0.2 cc. quantities in a few hours to 8 days. 2. The symptoms of mice inoculated with these autolysates are weakness and increasing prostration until death. Massive albuminuria is found, appearing 18 hours after injection. During the course of a prolonged intoxication ascites and edema of the...

A clinical case of trypanosomosis in a German Shepherd dog and its diagnosis by polymerase chain reaction(PCR) was described.The dog was presented with clinical signs such as pyrexia, bilateral corneal opacity, pale mucous membranes, emaciation and lymphadenopathy. Wet film and stained smear examination of peripheral blood revealed Trypanosoma evansi. Blood sample was also subjected to PCR for ...

In the present investigation, a total number of 22 sheep and 29 goats were surveyed for abnormal masses showed frequently on the skin areas (ears, lips, trunk and perineal region) and eyes (either unilateral or bilateral) of both animals. A characteristic clinical signs represented as cachexia, emaciation, anemia and exophthalmic eye or both eyes. The excised masses appeared grossly as nodular ...

Aspergillosis is an important infectious disease in ostriches that can be acute or chronic. Because of high morbidity and mortality rate of aspergillosis in ostriches, it can cause serious financial losses to the ostrich production industry. In this study, we discuss some outbreaks of Aspergillus infection in ostrich farms of eastern regions of Iran during 2010-2012. Signs of respiratory involv...

This study describes an occurrence of pink morning glory (Ipomoea carnea) intoxication in goats in northern Argentina. The clinical signs displayed by the affected animals were ataxia, lethargy, emaciation, hypertonia of the neck muscles, spastic paresis in the hind legs, abnormal postural reactions and death. The clinico-pathologic examination revealed that the affected animals were anemic and...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory airway disease associated with various systemic comorbidities including osteoporosis. Osteoporosis and its related fractures are common and have significant impacts on quality of life and even respiratory function in patients with COPD. COPD-associated osteoporosis is however extremely undertreated. Recent studies have sugge...

Caprine coccidiosis, protozoan disease caused by Eimeria species, is major parasitic diseases characterized by contagious enteritis. Severity of Eimeria spp. infection is more in young animals. Two goat kids aged below one year died with history of mucoid to haemorrhagic yellow watery diarrhea, anorexia, emaciation, poor growth and death. At necropsy, gross lesions in intestines revealed diffus...

The acute exudative glomerular lesion of the rabbit's kidney caused by crotalus venom does not lead to a subacute or chronic glomerulonephritis. The hemorrhagic lesion of the glomerular tuft may show a process of repair characterized by the ingrowth, into the hemorrhagic masses, of endothelial cells from the uninjured part of the tuft. This process is, however, more analogous to the organizatio...