Outbreak of pasteurellosis in captive Bolivian squirrel monkeys (Saimiri boliviensis)

The Journal of Veterinary Medical Science

Jun SASAKI¹  Masanobu GORYO¹  Mizuki YOSHINO¹  Konomi KURAMOCHI¹  Natsuko MUKAIZAWA²  Mitsutaka IKEZAWA³ 

[1] Department of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Ueda 3-18-8, Morioka, Iwate 020-8550, Japan;Ikeda Zoo, Kyoyama, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-0015, Japan;National Institute of Animal Health, 3-1-5 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0856, Japan

关键词: outbreak;    pasteurellosis;    septicemia;    squirrel monkey;   

DOI  :  10.1292/jvms.16-0515

学科分类：兽医学

来源: Japanese Society of Veterinary Science

【 摘 要 】

In September 2012, five Bolivian squirrel monkeys housed in a zoological park died within sequential several days without obvious clinical signs. In a necrospy, one monkey presented swelling of the kidney with multifocal white nodules in the parenchyma, and other two had pulmonary congestion. Histopathologically, multifocal bacterial colonies of gram-negative coccobacillus were found in the sinusoid of the liver in all monkeys examined (Nos.1−4). Additionally, purulent pyelonephritis, pneumonia and disseminated small bacterial colonies in blood vessels were observed. Immunohistochemically, the bacterial colonies from two monkeys were positive for P. multocida capsular serotype D. Based on these findings, these monkeys were diagnosed as septicemia caused by acute P. multocida infection.

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