some pathological features of lungs from domestic and wild ruminants with single and mixed protostrongylid infections一些肺部的病理特征与单一和混合protostrongylid家养和野生反刍动物感染.pdfVIP

SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research Veterinary Medicine International Volume 2010, Article ID 741062, 9 pages doi:10.4061/2010/741062 Research Article Some Pathological Features of Lungs from Domestic and Wild Ruminants with Single and Mixed Protostrongylid Infections Mariana Stancheva Panayotova-Pencheva and Marin Tsvyatkov Alexandrov Institute of Experimental Pathology and Parasitology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Street, Block 25, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria Correspondence should be addressed to Mariana Stancheva Panayotova-Pencheva, marianasp@abv.bg Received 21 October 2009; Revised 15 December 2009; Accepted 4 February 2010 Academic Editor: Mary M. Christopher Copyright © 2010 M. S. Panayotova-Pencheva and M. T. Alexandrov. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Lungs of 40 ruminants from Bulgaria with natural small lungworm (Nematoda: Protostrongylidae) infections were investigated, including 16 goats, 15 sheep, 7 mouflons, and 2 chamois. Muellerius capillaris, M. tenuispiculatus, Cystocaulus ocreatus, Neostrongylus linearis, and Protostrongylus brevispiculum infections were predominantly associated with nodular lesions, and Protostrongylus rufescens, Protostrongylus hobmaieri and Protostrongylus rupicaprae were associated with extensive lesions located mainly along the length of the large bronchi. The extent of lung abnormalities was most severe in the sheep. Alveolitis, parasite granulomas, damage of the alveolar septa, hyperplasia of the lung associated lymphoid tissue, and sclerosis of the parenchyma were found upon microscope examinatio