TABLE 2.
Clinical symptoms, pathological findings, and therapeutic treatment of the animals
Isolate (host animal) | Clinical symptoms | Pathology | Treatment/medical procedures |
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18-YE00011 (Black-headed Spider monkey) | Apathy, death under anesthesia | High-grade multifocal necrotizing inflammation of liver and spleen | |
18-YE00012 (Black-headed Spider monkey) | Apathy, reduced appetite | High-grade hyperplasia of spleen and mesenteric lymph nodes | Antibiotic treatment (amoxcillin, ceftiofur); NSAID (meloxicam); Supportive treatment during anesthesia (fluid supplementation and vitamins) |
19-YE00056 (Chacoan mara) | Found dead without previous clinical signs | Purulent-necrotizing hepatitis; splenitis and typhlocolitis | |
19-YE00057, 19-YE00070 (Pudu) | Watery diarrhea | Enterocolitis | Antibiotic treatment (amoxicillin); antiparasitic treatment (ivermectin), supportive treatment (fluid supplementation and oral electrolytes) |
19-YE00065 (Patagonian mara) | Apathy, ataxia, paraparesis | Chronic subcutaneous phlegmona above the lumbar spine; necrotizing hepatitis and splenitis | Euthanasia |
19-YE00066 (Patagonian mara) | Found dead without previous clinical signs | Multiple internal abscesses | |
19-YE00106 (Short-eared elephant shrew) | Apathy, death | Necrotizing hepatitis |