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BACKGROUND: This case report describes the first placental retention in an 11-year-old female bonobo (Pan paniscus) following the delivery of a healthy infant. METHODS: After unsuccessful medical treatment with oxytocin, the placenta was manually extracted. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Both the dam and infant survived.
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Animais de Zoológico , Doenças dos Símios Antropoides/tratamento farmacológico , Doenças dos Símios Antropoides/cirurgia , Ocitocina/uso terapêutico , Pan paniscus , Placenta Retida/veterinária , Amoxicilina/uso terapêutico , Animais , Doenças dos Símios Antropoides/patologia , Feminino , Metronidazol/uso terapêutico , Placenta Retida/tratamento farmacológico , Placenta Retida/patologia , Placenta Retida/cirurgia , Gravidez , Probióticos/uso terapêutico , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
We report the first probable identification of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) in a bonobo (Pan paniscus) that had been part of a forest re-introduction programme. Clinical presentation was of episodic acute on chronic heart failure and cerebral infarction with end-stage renal failure rather than sudden death which is more commonly associated with EMCV infection. A postmortem diagnosis of probable EMCV was made using gross pathological and histopathological examination. Findings included acute on chronic heart failure combined with the unusual but characteristic histopathological features of non-suppurative necrotizing myocarditis with mononuclear, inflammatory infiltration of the brain.