title: [Amyloidosis in infected Didelphis marsupialis].
abstract: A male opossum, Didelphis marsupialis, captured in Teruel (Huila), Colombia, was inoculated intraperitoneally with 1 x 10(6) promastigotes of Leishmania chagasi (MHOM/CO/84/CL044B). The animal died 5 weeks after inoculation. Autopsy revealed signs of visceral leishmaniasis along with amastigote parasite form in Kupffer cells and spleen macrophages. Amyloid deposits in liver and spleen were demonstrated by histological staining and electron microscopy. The rapid death was considered a consequence of a secondary, reactive amyloidosis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Patología, Instituto Nacional de Salud, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia.
authors.forename: Diana Milena
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Roa
authors.forename: Ladys
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sarmiento
authors.forename: Gerzaín
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
mesh_terms: D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000469:parasitology*; D000818:Animals; D018314:Leishmania infantum; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D009893:Opossums