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Aural-pharyngeal polyps associated with Cryptosporidium infection in three iguanas (Iguana iguana)
E W Uhl1, E Jacobson, T E Bartick
1Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610-0145, USA.
Veterinary Pathology
|March 31, 2001
Abstract:
Cryptosporidium spp. infection was associated with aural-pharyngeal polyps in three iguanas (Iguana iguana). All iguanas were presented for masses protruding from the ear canal, and the disease was characterized by a chronic clinical course. The masses consisted of nests of cystic glands surrounded by abundant fibrous connective tissue and lined by hyperplastic cuboidal to pseudostratified columnar epithelium that was moderately to heavily colonized by cryptosporidial organisms. Electron microscopy revealed that the majority of organisms were trophozoites.