Pulmonary Infection Due to Mycobacterium goodii in a Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) from South Africa

Paul D. van Helden; Nico C. Gey van Pittius; Robin M. Warren; Anita Michel; Tiny Hlokwe; Darshana Morar; Jacques Godfroid; Elizabeth C. du Plessis; Roy Bengis

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-44.1.151

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1 January 2008 Pulmonary Infection Due to Mycobacterium goodii in a Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) from South Africa

Paul D. van Helden, Nico C. Gey van Pittius, Robin M. Warren, Anita Michel, Tiny Hlokwe, Darshana Morar, Jacques Godfroid, Elizabeth C. du Plessis, Roy Bengis

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 44(1):151-154 (2008). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-44.1.151

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We report a case of pyogranulomatous pneumonia due to infection with Mycobacterium goodii in an adult female spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta). The lungs of the animal showed consolidated, granulomatous lesions, and they were extensively and severely infiltrated. Polymerase chain reaction sequencing of isolated crude lung tissue DNA, and boiled lung culture samples, all confirmed that the causative organism was M. goodii, a recently described fast-growing organism closely related to the nonpathogenic mycobac-terial species M. smegmatis. The current study illustrates that this organism can be pathogenic and cause extensive pulmonary disease.

van Helden, van Pittius, Warren, Michel, Hlokwe, Morar, Godfroid, du Plessis, and Bengis: Pulmonary Infection Due to Mycobacterium goodii in a Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) from South Africa

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Paul D. van Helden, Nico C. Gey van Pittius, Robin M. Warren, Anita Michel, Tiny Hlokwe, Darshana Morar, Jacques Godfroid, Elizabeth C. du Plessis, and Roy Bengis "Pulmonary Infection Due to Mycobacterium goodii in a Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) from South Africa," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 44(1), 151-154, (1 January 2008). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-44.1.151

Received: 13 June 2007; Published: 1 January 2008

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