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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Zoonoses Public Health. 2014 Mar 13;61(8):571–580. doi: 10.1111/zph.12107

Table 1.

Prevalence of microscopic gastrointestinal lesions at necropsy. Results are based on a colony of 27 animals. All animals were clinically normal at the time of euthanasia with the exception of one animal with fight wounds and dermatitis.

Tissue Microscopic Lesion # Animals Affected/Total Prevalence
Stomach Lymphoplasmacytic mucosal gastritis 18/27 66.7%
Liver Random hepatocellular hyalinosis 26/27 96.3%
Duodenum Plasmacytic mucosal enteritis 27/27 100.0%
Cecum Plasmacytic mucosal typhlitis 24/27 88.9%
Colon Lymphoplasmacytic mucosal colitis 18/27 66.7%