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Joint Conference Spring 2010
Dr. Brigid TroanNorth Carolina Zoological Park
brigid@troan.org
Guidelines
6 total cases– Glass slides available in Pathology
residents office– Some cases come with gross photos -
give morphologic (and etiologic when possible) diagnoses for these as well
– Note case 6 is a gross photo only– As always, the photos are no substitute
for actually looking at the slides
Guidelines cont.
Concentrate on main lesions - what the diagnosis is based on– Tissue– Morphologic diagnosis, – Etiology / pathogenesis– Further tests– Management – Note other questions for selected cases!
Prize Question
Email answers to brigid@troan.org For DVM students
– The most number of correct tissues / diagnoses For residents and graduate students
– For case 1, a contemporary veterinary pathologist gets most of the credit for initially recognizing this disease - what is this person’s name? (hint - this pathologist was one of Dr. Troan mentors) and what diseases was this person differentiating between?
Case 1 - Chilean Flamingo
35 year old, female, Chilean Flamingo Part of the collection at the Bronx Zoo in
New York City One of several flamingos to present weak
and ataxic Malaria diagnosed next door in the penguin
exhibit No zebras sick
– Why is this important?– What other native (to NYC) birds could be
affected?
Case 2:Bobcat
Free-ranging, male, juvenile bobcat from western North Carolina
Found dead by rangersWhere did he get this disease from?
Case 4: Female Madagascar Tortoise
One of a group brought to Japan from Madagascar 4 months previously and housed housed in quarantine
Acute onset of anorexia, depression Treated for helminth infection but died after
several days What should be done with the other tortoises
(some of which are now sick)?
Case 4: Adult Dwarf African Clawed FrogsOne of several frogs sent to a
diagnostic laboratory from a tropical fish retailer
About half of the frogs at the facility had died; the remaining were thin, with skin hanging from their backs and legs
Why are they dead?
Case 5: Pipistrelle
Adult, male, eastern pipistrelleWhile hiking with some friends in
western North Carolina in January, you fine this one on the ground (no visible lesions), but its buddies up above look like the following photo
Now what
Of course you pick up a dead bat to take home for a post-mortem
But what else do you do (as in - should you go ahead and check out the next cave which is supposed to house North Carolina’s largest bat colony?)
And why are these bats dying anyway - and why doesn’t the dead one have similar lesions - did it die of something else?
Case 6: Tasmanian devils
ALL the animals from this group have similar lesions