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Splenic lymphoma in a short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
E J Gentz1, M J Richard, L D Stuart
1Albuquerque Biological Park, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104, USA. ngentz@cabq.gov
Australian Veterinary Journal
|July 4, 2009
Abstract:
A 23-year-old, male short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) housed at a North American zoo was successfully treated for flea-associated anaemia, but subsequently died. Cause of death was presumptive septicaemia secondary to splenic lymphoma. This is only the fifth case of neoplasia reported in this monotreme species, and the first from outside of Australia.
