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Bilateral lenticular Encephalitozoon cuniculi infection in a snow leopard (Panthera uncia)
Emma Jane Scurrell1, Ellen Holding, Jane Hopper
1CytoPath Ltd, PO Box 24, Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 2YD, UK.
Abstract:
Bilateral phacoclastic uveitis caused by lenticular infection with Encephalitozoon cuniculi is described in a snow leopard. The diagnosis was made on histopathological and immunohistological examination of both eyes submitted after postmortem examination. There was a positive antibody titer for E. cuniculi (1:320). Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequence analysis of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded ocular tissue detected the DNA of E. cuniculi, strain III. No other systemic lesions attributable to the E. cuniculi infection were identified.
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