| bacterial cholecystitis with cardiac and pulmonary dissemination in a blue-naped mousebird (urocolius macrourus). | a blue-naped mousebird (urocolius macrourus) was diagnosed by gross necropsy and histopathology as having a chronic, fibrosing bacterial cholecystitis. acute, severe, necrotizing pneumonia and myocarditis also were present with intralesional gram-negative bacteria. the bacteria within the lungs and heart were suspected to have spread from the biliary tract because of the pattern of distribution and similar gram-staining characteristics. enterobacter sp. and escherichia coli were cultured from th ... | 2000 | 10879929 |