Fatal encephalitozoonosis in two koalas. Academic Article

abstract

• Two young koalas from a fauna park, recently out of the pouch and approximately 6 months old, were found dead with no previous clinical signs or gross lesions. On histopathological examination, large numbers of spores consistent with a microsporidian organism were present intracellularly within the small intestinal mucosa. Electron microscopy and polymerase chain reaction studies (sequencing the 5' end of the SSU RNA gene) identified the organism as Encephalitozoon intestinalis with 100% homology with those of previously reported human isolates. This is believed to be the first report of this organism in a marsupial.

authors

• Snowden, Karen

published proceedings

• Aust Vet J

author list (cited authors)

• Nimmo, J. S., Snowden, K., & O'Donoghue, P.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Nimmo, JS||Snowden, K||O'Donoghue, P

publication date

• October 2007

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• Australian Veterinary Journal  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Cause Of Death
• Encephalitozoonosis
• Fatal Outcome
• Female
• Intestine, Small
• Male
• Phascolarctidae

PubMed Central ID

• 17903133

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1751-0813.2007.00185.x

start page

• 428

end page

• 432

volume

• 85

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-0813.2007.00185.x