Pneumocystosis: a chronic respiratory distress syndrome in the dog.
Pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in two unrelated Miniature Dachshunds is reported. The clinical findings, gross- and histopathology and some diagnostic transmission and scanning electron microscopic features of the condition are described. Although pneumocystosis has been reported from a human and a domestic goat in the Republic of South Africa, these are probably the first reported cases of the canine disease in this country.
D000818:Animals; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*