| second case of histoplasmosis in a captive mara (dolichotis patagonum): pathological findings. | a second case of histoplasmosis in a captive mara (dolichotis patagonum) from a colony at the wildlife park africam safari, puebla, mexico, is described, and the mara died with disseminated clinical form of the disease, affecting mostly the large intestine and adrenal. the pathological findings of this case 2 revealed severe granulomatous typhlocolitis and moderate granulomatous gastrohepatic lymphadenitis with numerous yeast-like cells, 2-4 mum in diameter, with a clear halo surrounding them in ... | 2009 | 19360479 |
| identification of the source of histoplasmosis infection in two captive maras (dolichotis patagonum) from the same colony by using molecular and immunologic assays. | histoplasma capsulatum was isolated from the spleen of a first infected mara (dolichotis patagonum) and from a second mara's liver and adrenal gland, both in the same colony at the africam safari, puebla, mexico. studies of h. capsulatum isolates, using nested-pcr of a 100-kda protein coding gene (hcp100) fragment and a two-primer rapd-pcr method, suggest that these isolates were spreading in the environment of the maras' enclosure. by using a dot-elisa method, sera from mice inoculated with thr ... | 2009 | 19623900 |