Title

Kurloff cells in peripheral blood and organs of wild capybaras

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-41.2.431

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Publication Title

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Abstract

Peripheral blood and tissue from twenty-two free-ranging, hunter-killed capybaras (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris) collected between December 1996 and April 1997 in Casanare, Colombia (5°58′N and 71°33′W), were examined by light microscopy for Kurloff cells (KCs). Kurloff cells were observed in the blood of one pregnant adult female, and in organs from all the animals, including spleen (21 of 22 animals), liver (18 of 21), lungs (13 of 21), ovary (8 of 11), uterus (7 of 10), bone marrow (13 of 20), kidney (8 of 22), adrenal gland (6 of 20), and lymph node (4 of 14). The anatomic distribution of the KC in the wild capybaras was similar to that of the guinea pig. © Wildlife Disease Association 2005.

Volume

41

Issue

2

First Page

431

Last Page

434

ISSN

00903558

PubMed ID

16107679

Identifier

SCOPUS_ID:24344432366

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