title: Hepatic abscesses in beagle puppies.
abstract: Postmortem examination revealed hepatic abscesses in 49 laboratory beagle dogs dying during the first 10 weeks of life. The abscesses appeared to be omphalogenic in origin and frequently contained Gram-positive coccoid bacteria most often identified as Staphylococcus and less often as Streptococcus. A few abscesses contained Gram-positive, branching, beaded, filamentous organisms never successfully cultured. Puppies with hepatic abscesses died as early as 3 days of age and 46 (94%) were dead by 4 weeks of age.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D004285:Dogs; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013291:Streptococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification