Category: Pathology Notes

Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Pathology Notes / Quebec / Website Rotator

2021-10-18

Impaction intestinale par des écailles de graines de tournesol chez deux ratons laveurs au Québec.

Le tournesol, originaire de l’Amérique du Nord, a été d’abord cultivé par les premières nations, puis a servi pour l’ensilage ainsi que source de grains pour la volaille. Aujourd’hui, les graines de tournesol représentent...

Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Pathology Notes / Quebec / Website Rotator

2021-10-18

Intestinal impaction by sunflower seed shells in two raccoons in Quebec.

Sunflowers, native to North America, were first cultivated by First Nations, then used for silage as well as a source of grain for poultry. Today, sunflower seeds are one of the most important sources...

Confirmation d’un cas de mycoplasmose chez un roselin pourpré au Québec.

Bird Feeders / Birds / Diagnostic Highlights / Mycoplasmosis / Pathology Notes / Quebec / Surveillance / Website Rotator

2021-09-07

Confirmation d’un cas de mycoplasmose chez un roselin pourpré au Québec.

Au cours de la dernière année, nous avons reçu plusieurs photos de passereaux présentant des lésions suggestives de mycoplasmose. Cependant, ce diagnostic présomptif n’avait pas encore pu être confirmé en laboratoire, car aucun des...

Bird Feeders / Birds / Mycoplasmosis / Pathology Notes / Quebec / Surveillance / Website Rotator

2021-09-07

Confirmation of a case of mycoplasmosis in a purple finch in Quebec.

During the past year, we have received several photos of passerines with lesions suggestive of mycoplasmosis. However, as none of the sick birds had been submitted for analysis, this presumptive diagnosis had not yet...

Birds / Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Pathology Notes / Quebec / Toxicity / Website Rotator

2020-11-16

Déposition de cristaux d’oxalate de calcium dans les reins

L’activité principale du RCSF est d’effectuer des nécropsies (autopsies) sur des animaux sauvages afin de déterminer la cause de leur mort. Cet examen post-mortem commence par un examen macroscopique de la carcasse habituellement suivi...

Birds / Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Pathology Notes / Quebec / Toxicity / Website Rotator

2020-11-16

Calcium oxalate crystals in the kidneys.

As wildlife pathologists one of our goals is to determine the cause of death of wild animals submitted for necropsy. The first step of a necropsy is to do a macroscopic exam of the...

Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Pathology Notes / Saskatchewan / Website Rotator / Western/Northern

2020-07-17

Beware the porcupine! A case of misadventure in a young mountain lion.

CWHC Western/Northern recently received the carcass of a juvenile mountain lion from southwest Saskatchewan that fell ill after eating a porcupine, quills and all. The cub was euthanized after it was found not moving...

Diagnostic Highlights / Graduate Students / Mammals / Ontario/Nunavut / Pathology Notes / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2020-04-07

Is it tuberculosis?! Differential diagnoses for caseous lung lesions in deer

As a wildlife pathologist, probably the last thing you want to see when you open the chest cavity of a white-tailed deer are white, firm lung nodules. At that point you have to break...

Atlantic / Diagnostic Highlights / Pathology Notes / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2020-01-30

Sunfish Ashore in PEI

Last November (2019), The CWHC was informed that a very unusual fish had washed up on the red shores of Prince Edward Island. The Mola mola (or “Ocean Sunfish” as it is better known)...

British Columbia / Diagnostic Highlights / Pathology Notes / Poisoning / Toxicity / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-05-30

Secondary Barbiturate Toxicity in Bald Eagles and a Red-Tailed Hawk

Secondary toxicity is a relatively common occurrence in free-ranging carnivores and scavengers, particularly in raptors. Secondary toxicity had been documented in a variety of wildlife in BC, including barbiturate toxicity in eagles (Hayes, 1988)....