2005 Volume 10 Issue 2 Pages 111-115
A female bottlenose dolphin had a fever and hypodynamia, and was found dead. At necropsy, the lungs were not involuted for the most parts, and had exudation of fluid from the cut surface. In the lung there were numerous yellowish-white abscesses, miliary to 5cm. In the heart, there was a 2cm yellowish-green abscess in the left ventricle as well. Histopathologically, the lungs showed severe chronic purulent pneumonia with multifocal abscesses. The heart had severe purulent myocarditis with multifocal abscesses and necrotic foci. The brain showed severe purulent meningo-encephalitis. This cause of the dolphin's death might be severe purulent pneumonia.
