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KMID : 1094020170340050384
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Journal of Veterinary Clinics
2017 Volume.34 No. 5 p.384 ~ p.387
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A Case of Eucoleus aerophilus Infection in Jeju Weasel - Mustela sibirica quelpartis
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Han Jeong-Hee
Yoon Young-Min
Yang Hyoung-Seok
Kim Jae-Hoon
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Abstract
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A dead male Jeju weasel with clinical signs of severe dehydration and moribund was submitted for the necropsy. Grossly, purple-red ecchymoses were scattered in the surface of the entire lungs. Milky-white mucoid materials occupied in the left bronchial lumens. Histopathologically, an adult worm with thick cuticle layer surrounded by chronic inflammatory cells was embedded in the left caudal lung lobe. Numerous oval or barrel-shaped parasitic eggs with muco-purulent exudates were observed in the dilated bronchus of another section of left caudal lobe. Operculate parasitic eggs showed typical morphologic characteristics such as barrel shape with asymmetry bipolar plugs and thick bi-layered wall. Based on the histopathologic findings and morphological characteristics of parasitic eggs in the pulmonary tissue section, this case was diagnosed as verminous pneumonia associated Eucoleus aerophilus infection in Jeju weasel.
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KEYWORD
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Eucoleus aerophilus, Jeju weasel, lung, parasitic eggs, verminous pneumonia
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