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Case Reports
. 2014 Feb;43(1):48-51.
doi: 10.1111/jmp.12085. Epub 2013 Sep 30.

Fatal Streptococcus anginosus-associated pneumonia in a captive Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii)

E A Ihms  1 , J B Daniels, C S Koivisto, M T Barrie, D S Russell
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Fatal Streptococcus anginosus-associated pneumonia in a captive Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii)

E A Ihms et al. J Med Primatol. 2014 Feb.

Abstract

Background: Bacterial infections commonly affect the lungs and air sacs of orangutans; culture and identification is rarely performed and may have clinical relevance.

Methods: Necropsy, histopathology and bacterial culture were performend on a captive adult male Sumatran orangutan with chronic air sacculitis. Bacterial speciation was confirmed by sequencing of the 16s-23s ribosomal DNA spacer region.

Results: Necropsy revealed severe suppurative pneumonia. Moderate growth of Streptoccocus anginosus was recovered from the lungs.

Conclusions: This is the first report of S. anginosus as a cause of fatal suppurative pneumonia in a non-human primate.

Keywords: Milleri group streptococci; air sacculitis; non-human primate; sinusitis.

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