| pulmonary protostrongyliasis in a mountain hare from italy. | an adult male mountain hare (lepus timidus), shot during the hunting season on the slopes of mt. civetta (eastern alps, veneto, northeastern italy), was eviscerated and diffuse nodular lesions of verminous pneumonia were observed. adult helminths were collected and male specimens were identified as protostrongylus pulmonalis. histologically, a non-purulent interstitial pneumonia and a desquamative bronchiolitis and alveolitis, along with thickening of alveolar septa, were apparent in the nodules ... | 2000 | 10813620 |