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Pneumocystosis, Lung, Rat

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Respiratory System

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Heavily infected lungs are focally to diffusely consolidated, but the infiltrate never involves an entire lobe. The alveoli are filled with grayish material. The intervening pinkish alveolar walls can be seen with a hand lens (Fig. 368). If tissue necrosis or abscesses are present, another organism should also be considered. The lungs are not hyperemic and are less voluminous than seen in other consolidated lungs. No fibrinous pleuritis occurs unless bacterial or fungal pneumonia is present.

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  1. ILSI Research Foundation, Harvard Medical School, 1126 Sixteenth Street,N.W., Washington, DC, 20036, USA

    Thomas Caryle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology Emeritus) (Professor of Comparative Pathology Emeritus)

  2. University of California, Davis, 6260 Cape George Road, Port Townsend, WA, 98368, USA

    Donald L. Dungworth B.V.Sc, Ph.D., M.R.C.V.S. (Professor of Veterinary Pathology, Emeritus) (Professor of Veterinary Pathology, Emeritus)

  3. Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, 30625, Hannover, Germany

    Ulrich Mohr MD (Professor of Experimental Pathology) (Professor of Experimental Pathology)

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Frenkel, J.K. (1996). Pneumocystosis, Lung, Rat. In: Jones, T.C., Dungworth, D.L., Mohr, U. (eds) Respiratory System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61042-4_39

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