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Hepatic abscesses in five outdoor‐housed rhesus macaques ( M acaca mulatta )
Author(s) -
Johnson A.L.,
Ducore R.M.,
Colgin L.M.,
Lewis A.D.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of medical primatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1600-0684
pISSN - 0047-2565
DOI - 10.1111/jmp.12135
Subject(s) - histopathology , pathology , rhesus macaque , bacteremia , biology , medicine , physiology , anatomy , antibiotics , immunology , microbiology and biotechnology
Hepatic abscesses are uncommon in non‐human primates and usually occur as multifocal microabscesses originating from bacteremia. Necropsy, histopathology, and bacterial cultures were performed on five subadult to adult female rhesus macaques ( M acaca mulatta ) that died spontaneously. Necropsy findings included cavitating abscesses in the right central liver lobe of all five animals, with intralesional plant material in four animals. This is the first report of cavitating hepatic abscesses with intralesional plant material in non‐human primates.