| fatal infection with feline panleukopenia virus in two captive wild carnivores (panthera tigris and panthera leo). | two cases of fatal infection caused by parvovirus in a white tiger (panthera tigris) and an african lion (panthera leo) at the lisbon zoo (portugal) are described. gross findings at necropsy were catharral enteritis in the tiger and severe hemorrhagic enteritis in the lion. histopathologic examination revealed, in both animals, intestinal crypt necrosis and lymphocyte depletion in the germinal centers of the mesenteric lymph nodes. bacteriologic examination was negative for common bacterial path ... | 2009 | 19569486 |