Genre
- Journal Article
Contributors
Author: Daoust, Pierre Y.
Author: Veitch, A. M.
Author: McBurney, Scott R.
Date Issued
2000
Abstract
In fall 1991, a radio-collared black bear (Ursus americanus) in northern Labrador (Canada) died from valvular endocarditis caused by coagulase-positive Staphylococcus aureus, with widespread dissemination of the infection to other organs shortly before death. Apparently, this is the first reported case of bacterial valvular endocarditis in a wild black bear.
Note
Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre Atlantic region, Department of Pathology & Microbiology, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island. smcburney@upei.ca
UNITED STATES
LR: 20041117; PUBM: Print; JID: 0244160; ppublish
Source type: Electronic(1)
Language
- English
Subjects
- animals
- Hemorrhage/veterinary
- Newfoundland
- Staphylococcus aureus/pathogenicity
- Endocarditis, Bacterial/pathology/veterinary
- Ursidae/microbiology
- Male
- Histocytochemistry
- Staphylococcal Infections/microbiology/pathology/veterinary
- Aortic Valve/microbiology/pathology
- Fatal Outcome
Page range
788-791
Host Title
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Host Abbreviated Title
J.Wildl.Dis.
Volume
36
Issue
4
ISSN
0090-3558