Morphology and immunoperoxidase studies of intestinal adenomatosis in the blue fox, Alopex lagopus

Lawsonia intracellularis in Wild Mammals in the Slovak Carpathians

“…In captive wild animals, the bacterium has been detected in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus; Drolet et al, 1996), rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta; Klein et al, 1999), ostrich (Struthio camelus; Cooper et al, 1997), and emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae; Lemarchand et al, 1997). Lawsonia intracellularis probably caused adenomatosis in blue foxes (Alopex lagopus) reared in a fur farm (Eriksen et al, 1990).…”

“…According to clinical, histologic, immunoperoxidase, and electron microscopic examinations, it also is very likely that fur farm-reared blue foxes were infected with L. intracellularis (Eriksen et al, 1990). The infection in these foxes manifested with diarrhea and rectal prolapse.…”

“…However, two of four fecal samples (one from a wolf and one from a fox) in which we demonstrated the presence of L. intracellularis had soft consistency. Diarrhea is one of the characteristic signs of porcine proliferative enteritis (Lawson and Gebhart, 2000) and was also observed in affected dogs and blue foxes (Collins et al, 1983;Eriksen et al, 1990).…”

Proliferative Enteropathy in a Foal Caused by Lawsonia Intracellularis-Like Bacterium

“…Proliferative enteropathy (proliferative enteritis, proliferative ileitis, intestinal adenomatosis) has been reported in several animal species including the pig,1 2 dog, 2 foal, 3 blue fox, 5 guinea pig, 4 ferret, 6 hamster, 7 and rabbit. 13 The disease is characterized by adenomatous hyperplasia of crypt epithelial cells in the ileum and colon with intracytoplasmic curved bacteria resembling Campylobacter species.…”

Prevalence of antibodies against Lawsonia intracellularis in dogs with and without gastrointestinal disease

“…This bacterium has later been detected in a dog with inflammatory bowel disease using the nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and serology (Husnik et al, 2003;Tomanova et al, 2003a) and in four dogs with diarrhoea examined by PCR (Herbst et al, 2003). L. intracellularis has also been found in other species of the Canidae family, namely the grey wolf, red fox and probably also the blue fox (Eriksen et al, 1990;Tomanova et al, 2003b).…”