title: Eikenella corrodens-caused botryomycosis-type pneumonia in a barbary ape (Macaca sylvanus).
abstract: An 18-year-old female barbary ape in a safari park died from a mixed bacterial infection. Staphylococus aureus was isolated from a purulent necrotic mastitis and from a chronic purulent granulomatous sialoadenitis of the sublingual glands, Eikenella corrodens from a botryomycosis-type pneumonia. As judged by histopathology, mixed infection of S. aureus and E. corrodens was present in the sialoadenitis, and E. corrodens botryomycosis-type bacterial colonies were also present in the pancreatic parenchyma, though here no bacteriological isolation was attempted. A generalized amyloidosis, and especially pancreatic islet amyloidosis, probably indicated an altered immunological competence.
authors.affiliation: German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brack
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016124:Eikenella corrodens; D005260:Female; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D008251:Macaca / Q000382:microbiology*; D008413:Mastitis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D011512:Proteus Infections / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary