Pyogranulomatous peritonitis associated with Nocardia sp.-like organisms in a raccoon (Procyon lotor)

Amir N. Hamir; Charles E. Rupprecht

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-32.2.373

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1 April 1996 Pyogranulomatous peritonitis associated with Nocardia sp.-like organisms in a raccoon (Procyon lotor)

Amir N. Hamir, Charles E. Rupprecht

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 32(2):373-375 (1996). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-32.2.373

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During 1992 raccoons (Procyon lotor) were live-trapped in northeastern Pennsylvania (USA). In one of these animals a localized pyogranulomatous peritonitis was seen. Grossly a large mass with a central area of liquifactive necrosis was present in the anterior abdomen. Microscopically the lesion contained multiple colonies of filamentous organisms with histomorphologic and histochemical charcteristics resembling Nocardia sp. This appears to be the first report of Nocardia infection in the raccoon.

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Amir N. Hamir and Charles E. Rupprecht "Pyogranulomatous peritonitis associated with Nocardia sp.-like organisms in a raccoon (Procyon lotor)," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 32(2), 373-375, (1 April 1996). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-32.2.373

Received: 23 June 1995; Published: 1 April 1996

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